French Creek IA 01-UIA-248
from mouth (T99N R5W S1 Allamakee County) to confluence with French Creek - West Branch (T99N R23W S23 Allamakee County)
This is a Legacy Assessment. Prior to 2004, assessments were developed under a methodology that pre-dated the Integrated Report guidelines.
Assessment Cycle
1998
Result Period
1994 - 1996
Designations
Assessment Type
Monitored
Integrated Report
Category 0
Legacy ADBCode
IA 01-UIA-0140_0
Overall Use Support
Fully
Aquatic Life Use Support
Fully
Fish Consumption
Fully
Documentation
Assessment Comments
Information from March/April 1996 "Iowa Conservationist" and 009837 (1117MBR).
Basis for Assessment
Upgraded the use assessment of support of aquatic life use from FST to "fully supporting." In addition, stream was monitored as part of RAFT fish tissue monitoring in 1996. All contaminants in the composite fillet samples of brown trout and white sucker were below 1/2 of the U.S. FDA action levels. The March/April 1998 Iowa Conservationist describes French Creek as having "high numbers of wild brown trout with increasing numbers of large fish." This information suggests full support of the Class B(CW) aquatic life uses.
Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
Methods
| 260 | Fish tissue analysis |
Monitoring Levels
| Biological | 0 |
| Habitat | 0 |
| Physical Chemistry | 0 |
| Toxic | 0 |
| Pathogen Indicators | 0 |
| Other Health Indicators | 0 |
| Other Aquatic Life Indicators | 0 |
| # of Bio Sites | 0 |
| BioIntegrity | N/A |