It flows into
columbia river within the Lower Arrow Lake watershed (Lower Arrow Lake → Columbia River). It runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 33 km.
brook trout,
bull trout,
rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (137 records). The fish-passage model expects Brown Trout,
burbot, Cutthroat Trout,
kokanee, Lake Trout, Lake Whitefish,
mountain whitefish,
northern pike, Smallmouth Bass,
walleye,
white sturgeon,
yellow perch here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet. Named tributaries:
judkin creek.