East Fork Wapsipinicon River IA 01-WPS-408
upper end of Sweet Marsh Segment C (S26 T93N R12W Bremer Co.) to the Bremer/Chickasaw county line (N line S3 T93N R12W Bremer Co.)
This is a Legacy Assessment. Prior to 2004, assessments were developed under a methodology that pre-dated the Integrated Report guidelines.
Assessment Cycle
1996
Result Period
1992 - 1994
Designations
Assessment Type
Monitored
Integrated Report
Category 0
Legacy ADBCode
IA 01-WPS-0190_2
Overall Use Support
Threatened
Aquatic Life Use Support
Threatened
Documentation
Assessment Comments
Stream use assessment in 1992.
Basis for Assessment
Used assessment of aquatic life uses developed for the 1994 report (=FST) (although fields for "support of designated uses" were blank).
Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
| 9/5/1997 | Fixed Monitoring Start Date |
| 9/5/1997 | Fixed Monitoring End Date |
| 9/5/1997 | Biological Monitoring |
Methods
| 220 | Non-fixed station physical/chemical monitoring (conventional pollutant only) |
| 315 | Regional reference site approach |
| 320 | Benthic macroinvertebrate surveys |
| 330 | Fish surveys |
| 380 | Quan. measurements of instream parms-- channel morphology-- floodplain-- 1-2 seasons-- by prof |
Monitoring Levels
| Biological | 4 |
| Habitat | 4 |
| Physical Chemistry | 1 |
| Toxic | 0 |
| Pathogen Indicators | 0 |
| Other Health Indicators | 0 |
| Other Aquatic Life Indicators | 0 |
| # of Bio Sites | 1 |
| BioIntegrity | Fair |