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Pleasant Creek Lake IA 02-CED-459

Linn County S31T85NR8W 4 mi. NNW of Palo.

Assessment Cycle
1996
Result Period
1992 - 1994
Designations
Assessment Type
Monitored
Integrated Report
Category 0
Trophic
Eutrophic
Trend
Stable
Legacy ADBCode
IA 02-CED-00310-L_0
Overall Use Support
Fully
Aquatic Life Use Support
Fully
Fish Consumption
Not assessed
Primary Contact Recreation
Fully
Documentation
Assessment Comments

Monitored in 1990 by ISU as part of Clean Lakes Classification study (1994).

Basis for Assessment

Used assessments of support of the Class A (primary contact) uses (=FS) and the Class B(LW) aquatic life uses (=FS) developed for the 1994 report.

Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
9/10/2001 Fixed Monitoring End Date
5/22/2000 Fixed Monitoring Start Date
8/19/1999 Biological Monitoring
Methods
120 Surveys of fish and game biologists/other professionals
222 Non-fixed-station monitoring (conventional during key seasons and flows)
260 Fish tissue analysis
340 Primary producer surveys (phytoplankton/periphyton/macrophyton)
420 Water column surveys (e.g. fecal coliform)
Monitoring Levels
Biological 0
Habitat 0
Physical Chemistry 3
Toxic 0
Pathogen Indicators 0
Other Health Indicators 0
Other Aquatic Life Indicators 0
# of Bio Sites 0
BioIntegrity N/A