Yamaska South East River


The Yamaska Southeast river is a tributary of the Yamaska River. It flows in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Montérégie, on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River, in Quebec, Canada. Its course to the northwest crosses the municipalities of: Sutton, Cowansville, Brigham and Farnham.

Geography

The main neighboring hydrographic slopes of the Yamaska Southeast River are:
The Yamaska Southeast river takes its sources from several streams draining the northern slope of Mont Sutton, north of Sutton and south of Brome Lake. Its main tributary is the Jackson stream which receives water from:
Upper course of the river
From the confluence of two mountain streams on the western flank of the Gagnon and Écho mountains, the Yamaska Southeast river flows over:
  • northwesterly in the forest area to the route 215 bridge at Sutton Jonction;
  • north, along the railway line and the road, in an agricultural and forest zone, to a which empties into the Yamaska Southeast is south of the hamlet Mansville;
  • north-west in a forest area to a long bay where Jackson's stream empties ;
  • westward in the agricultural zone to the bridge over the hamlet of West Brome ;
  • northwesterly to the route 104 bridge, which spans the bay to the southeast of Davignon Lake;
  • heading west across Lake Davignon which is located on the east side of the town of Cowansville.
Course downstream of Davignon Lake
From Davignon Lake, the Yamaska Southeast river flows over:
The Yamaska Southeast river empties on the south shore of the Yamaska River at upstream of the bridge of route 235 of Farnham and downstream of the Adamsville highway bridge.

Toponymy

The toponym "Rivière Yamaska Sud-Est" was officially registered on December 5, 1968, in the Bank of place names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.