Kenogami Lake
Kenogami lake is a long lake in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of south-central Quebec, Canada. Situated at an altitude of, the lake is long and deep. "Kénogami" means "long lake" in the Montagnais dialect and was originally used to refer to Kenogami Lake, Ontario.
It is situated in the Laurentian Highlands north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River through the Chicoutimi and Aux-Sables Rivers.
The lake is fed by dozens of small rivers coming from the Laurentian Highlands. The three principal being the Pikauba, Cyriac and Aux-Ecorces Rivers. The towns on its shores include Lac-Kénogami, and Hébertville.
The area around the lake is served on the east side by route 175 ; on the north side by the Kénogami road, the Route des Bâtisseurs and the Saint-Dominique street in Jonquière. A few secondary roads have been built in the area for the needs of hydroelectricity, forestry, recreational tourism and residents of this area.
Hydroelectricity is the main economic activity in this sector; recreational tourism activities, second; forestry, third.
The surface of Lake Kénogami is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.
Geography
Having for main hydrographic basin the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, this body of water, with an area of and a volume of 380 million m3 of water, is the source of the rivers Chicoutimi and Aux Sables.On its shores are the municipalities of Hébertville, Larouche and the former municipalities of Laterrière and Lac-Kénogami now part of the city of Saguenay.
The reservoir waters are retained by the dams Portage-des-Roches, Pibrac-Est and Pibrac-Ouest as well as the Ouiqui, Baie- dikes Cascouia, Moncouche, Coulée-Gagnon, Creek Outlet and Pibrac.
This lake has two outlets:
- Chicoutimi River whose entrance is bounded by the barrage de Portage-des-Roches;
- rivière aux Sables whose entrance is bounded by the Pibrac West dam.
South Shore
- Villa Marie bay,
- Moncouche bay,
- the Pier-à-Chabot,
- Pointe aux Bouleaux,
- McDonald tip,
- McDonald Bay,
- Cabland du Chaland bay,
- Finnigan point,
- Pointe du Caribou,
- point Raphaël,
- points to Harvey,
- Epiphanes bay,
- Dufour bay,
- bay at Cadie,
- Pointe aux Sables,
- bay Gélinas,
- Chouinard Bay,
- Théophile bay
- bay at Simon's,
- Pointe de Sable,
- Camp lake,
- Clover Bay,
- bay to Richard,
- Lac à Jean bay
- Saint-Édouard Island,
- Dufour bay,
- Gagné bay,
- notch of the Curé,
- Green Island,
- Neighbor Bay,
- green island,
- Voisine Island.
- Saint-Cyriac Chapel
- Price retirees center