It flows into
kootenay river within the Kootenay Lake watershed (Kootenay Lake → Kootenay River). It runs stream order 5 (well down the network, toward river scale; the scale runs from 1 for a headwater trickle to 6+ for a river) and roughly 24 km.
rainbow trout, Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (8 records). The fish-passage model expects
bull trout here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet. Named tributaries:
buckworth creek,
ezekiel creek,
jank creek,
mccomb creek.