The Skootamatta River is a river in Hastings County, Ontario. It flows from Skootamatta Lake to join the Moira River north of Tweed, Ontario.
Up until 1908, the river was used to transport logs to sawmills in the Belleville area. At one time, there was a small hydroelectric station on the river near Slave Lake which generated power for a nearby gold mine.
Communities on the river include:
Flinton, Ontario
Actinolite, Ontario
The river's name is thought to come from Ojibwa words meaning "burnt shoreline".
The Moira River is located in southern Ontario and flows from the Canadian Shield south across the St. Lawrence lowlands to Belleville and the Bay of Quinte on Lake Ontario.
The headwaters of the Moira River and the entire flow of the Black and Skootamattarivers are "tea-stained" by natural decomposition of vegetation.
Information on lakes and rivers in the Moira River watershed and adjacent watersheds was obtained from the Kingston Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the Quinte, Cataraqui Region, Crowe Valley, Napanee Region, Lower Trent Region, and Mississippi Valley Conservation Authorities, as well as the Peterborough, Bancroft and Kingston offices of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR).
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