Mississippi WatershedThe Mississippi watershed contains thousands of wetlands and of these, 52 have been assessed using the Ontario Wetland Evaluation System. The number of assessed wetlands as provincially and locally significant in the Mississippi watershed is 36 and 16, respectively. The number of unevaluated wetlands in the Mississippi watershed is 14,931.

The distribution of wetlands is uneven, with few significant wetland features of any note remaining in the Eastern Mississippi regions. The majority of wetland coverage is found in the Western and Central Mississippi regions.

Adapted from Volume I of the Watershed Characterization Report Preliminary Draft (v2.1), for the Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Region.