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North Fork Black Hawk Creek IA 02-CED-551

mouth (T87N R15W Sec1 Grundy County) to confluence with South Fork Black Hawk Creek(T88N R15W Sec8 Grundy County)

Assessment Cycle
1994
Result Period
1990 - 1992
Designations
Assessment Type
Monitored
Integrated Report
Category 0
Legacy ADBCode
IA 02-CED-0383_0
Overall Use Support
Partial
Aquatic Life Use Support
Partial
Documentation
Assessment Comments

1992 DNR stream use assessment in Grundy county.

Basis for Assessment

Stream assessment form indicates below average habitat quality.  Little substrate diversity and few pool/riffle sequences observed.  Very shallow and wide stream bed noted.   Frequent cases of pasture impacts, raw stream banks and channelization observed.  Relatively low diversity of fish, all cyprinid species, observed.

Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
6/1/1992 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