Chedoke Falls

Chedoke Falls is a Ribbon Waterfall located on the east branch of the Chedoke Creek in Hamilton Ontario. Chedoke Falls is 60 feet in height and 30 feet in crest width. Chedoke Falls experiences year-round flow.

Chedoke Falls is named after Chedoke Creek which runs through the area. The interesting fact about “Chedoke” is that it is not a Native Indian word as believed and noted in many websites and books. In fact it is a corruption of two English words “seven oaks”. The Native Indian caught the sound and changed “seven oaks” into “Chedoke”.

In 2012 it was discovered that there are very high levels of human waste in the water coming from Chedoke Falls. Illegal sewer hookups from the homes above the falls are blamed as the likely source of “super high levels” of fecal contamination at three escarpment waterfalls along Chedoke Creek.

There are many photos of people swimming in the water at the base of Chedoke Falls, had I not known already that there was raw sewage in the water, I still would not have entered the pool as I could already smell the sewage in the water.