The Watershed Group The Trout River watershed is one of the largest single drainage basins on P.E.I. with an area of 10710 hectares (26465 acres). The base flow is spring-fed thus depending entirely on ground water. The main branch of the stream is the 6km section extending from the Highway 2 crossing in Carleton upstream to Leard’s Pond. However there are various smaller streams feeding into the system amounting to an additional 60km. The land in the watershed is split quite evenly between forest cover and agricultural land with small percentages of developed and wet land areas. This is encouraging given that the accepted ratio for long term sustainability is fifty per cent of each. The only urban community in the watershed is the village of O’Leary, which was incorporated in 1951, with a present population of nearly one thousand people. The group recently completed work on a community-based Watershed Management Plan that was ratified on April 1st 2010. Copies of the plan are available through the contact information on this site.