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Lake Creek IA 04-RAC-1162

mouth to E line S12T86NR34W Calhoun Co

Assessment Cycle
1996
Result Period
1992 - 1994
Designations
Assessment Type
Monitored
Integrated Report
Category 0
Legacy ADBCode
IA 04-RAC-0130_1
Overall Use Support
Threatened
Aquatic Life Use Support
Threatened
Fish Consumption
Not assessed
Documentation
Assessment Comments

Stream use assessment.

Basis for Assessment

Used assessment of support of the Class B(WW) aquatic life uses developed for the 1994 report (=FST).   This stream, as all the south-flowing tributaries of the North Raccoon River in Greene, Carroll, and Calhoun counties, are well within the recent range of the soon-to-be federally-listed Topeka shiner.   Kaminski (ISU graduate student of Menzel) collected one Topeka shiner from Lake Creek at Lake City in 1995.   Continued support of the Class B(WW) uses is threatend by pasturing of the riparian corridor of this stream and by channel straightening in headwater reaches.

Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
10/1/1992 DNR Stream Use Assessment
Methods
330 Fish surveys
375 Visual observation-- may not quantify some parameters-- single season-- by prof.
Monitoring Levels
Biological 3
Habitat 3
Physical Chemistry 0
Toxic 0
Pathogen Indicators 0
Other Health Indicators 0
Other Aquatic Life Indicators 0
# of Bio Sites 0
BioIntegrity N/A