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"Tracing the watershed boundary from the confluence
with the Willamette River in a clockwise direction, the McKenzie watershed's
northern boundary follows the ridgeline of the Coburg Hills between Muddy Creek
and the Mohawk River north of the county
line. Turning east along the county line, the northern boundary
follows along separating the Kalapuya Basin from the Mohawk Basin. Then,
it follows along the McKenzie/Santiam River divide (Lane/Linn county line) until
the divide jogs north of the county line to the Santiam Pass and on east to the
crest of the Cascade Mountains to encompass the Blue River drainage and the
southerly flowing upper stretch of the McKenzie River above Belknap Hot
Springs.
The
crest of the Cascade Mountains forms the eastern boundary. The southern  boundary
follows the ridgeline separating the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the
Willamette River Basin from the French Pete Basin and the South Fork McKenzie
Basin. Continuing west along the ridgeline, the boundary separates the
Fall Creek Basin from the McKenzie Basin until it passes through the northeast
portion of the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area then turns north to the
confluence with the Willamette River, just south of the city of Coburg."
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