Kettle Creek Conservation Authority is one of 36 conservation authorities in Ontario. A conservation authority's jurisdiction is based on a watershed or the area of land that drains into a certain body of the water.The watershed is hourglass in shape and drains 520 square kilometres of land in the heart of the Carolinian Zone on the north shore of Lake Erie. Kettle Creek outlets to Lake Erie at Port Stanley at an elevation of 166 metres above sea level. This represents an elevation drop of about 141 metres from its watershed height to the average Lake Erie water level, approximately 1.75 metres per kilometre. more... See more text