Assessment Comments
Stream use assessment in Fayette County.
Basis for Assessment
Used a rewview of the field sheet from the October 1991 DNR stream use assessment in Fayette County to upgrade the assessment of support of the Class B(LR) aquatic life uses from PS to FST due to (1) presence of a moderately diverse fish community (10 species from 2 families) for streams in the Iowan Surface subecoregion (47c) and (2) presence of a majority of the expected fish taxa (6 of 11) for streams in this subregion. Comments regarding "very few fish" on the field sheet are difficult to interpret; ie, lack of good numbers of fish may be related to a late season collectoin (mid-October) or to relatively short reach of stream sampled (200 feet). The primary impacts to the physical characteristics of this stream are frequent pasturing of the riparian corridor and frequent streambank erosion. The data upon which this assessment is based is more than 5 years old. Additional monitoring is needed to update this assessment.
