It flows into
columbia river within the Upper Arrow Lake watershed (Upper Arrow Lake → Columbia 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 38 km.
brook trout,
bull trout,
kokanee,
mountain whitefish,
rainbow trout, recorded here in provincial fish-inventory data (20 records). The fish-passage model expects Westslope (Yellowstone) Cutthroat Trout here too, since the reach is reachable with no barrier between, though there is no direct record yet. Named tributaries:
cusson creek,
rioulx creek,
plant creek,
adams creek,
bergman creek,
Fisher Creek.