Indian Creek IA 03-SSK-943

mouth (S32 T80N R20W Jasper Co.) to confluence of East Indian and West Indian creeks in S16 T82N R22W Story Co.

Assessment Cycle

2024

Release Status

Pending

Data Collection Period

For purposes of developing stream/river water quality assessments for integrated reporting, three years of water quality data are typically used for both conventional pollutant parameters (e.g., indicator bacteria) and the less frequently monitored toxic parameters (e.g., toxic metals). Since the 2004 IR cycle, DNR has used a three-year data gathering period for streams, rivers, and beaches. For most assessments, the use of three years of data increases the number of samples upon which the decision on use support is based and helps address the problem of weather-related year-to-year fluctuations in water quality.

Due to the lower sampling frequency in Iowa’s ambient lake, biological, fish kill, and fish tissue monitoring programs, five years of data are used for developing IR assessments and for identifying Section 303(d) listings.

Data Type	Data Timeframe
Beach Sampling Data	CY 2020 - 2022
Stream/River Water Quality Data	CY 2020 - 2022
Lake Water Quality Data	CY 2018 - 2022
Biological Sampling Data	CY 2018 - 2022*
Fish Kill Data	CY 2018 - 2022
Fish Tissue Sampling Data	CY 2018 - 2022
Continuous Dissolved Oxygen Sampling Data	CY 2018 - 2022
*Biological sites sampled in both 2017 and 2021 were also assessed.

Overall IR Category: 5 - Water is impaired or threatened and a TMDL is needed.
Trend: Unknown

Created: 11/1/2023 8:12:58 AM
Updated: 2/1/2024 7:01:12 AM

Assessment conducted in accordance with Iowa's 2024 IR methodology.

Use Support

Class A1

Recreation

Primary contact

Presumptive Use

Not Supported

Impairments

Support Level

Not Supported

Impairment Code

5p - Impairment occurs on a waterbody with a presumptive A1 or B(WW1) use.

Cause Magnitude

Moderate

Status

Continuing

Source

Unknown: Source Unknown

Source Confidence

N/A

Cycle Added

2008

Impairment Rationale

Geometric mean criterion exceeded

Data Source

Ambient monitoring: Iowa DNR-rivers

TMDL Priority

Tier III

Class BWW2

Aquatic Life

Warm Water Type 2

Not Supported

Impairments

Support Level

Not Supported

Impairment Code

5b-v - Biological - verified

Cause Magnitude

Moderate

Status

Continuing

Source

Unknown: Source Unknown

Source Confidence

Low

Cycle Added

2016

Impairment Rationale

Low Biotic Index

Data Source

Biological monitoring: Iowa DNR WQMA

TMDL Priority

Tier IV

Impairment Delistings

No delistings for this assessment cycle.

Documentation

Assessment Summary

The presumptive Class A1 use was assessed as "not supported" due to levels of indicator bacteria (E. coli) that violated state water quality criteria. The Class BWW2 use was assessed as "not supported" based on biological sampling data.

Assessment Explanation

Data Sources:

Data Source	Data Source ID	Data Type	Data Age	Site ID	Site Name	Site Description
Iowa DNR	6	WQ	CY 2021	376	Indian Creek
Iowa DNR	6	WQ	CY 2020-2022	10500001	Indian Creek near Colfax
Iowa DNR	6	BIO	See Below	376	Indian Creek	Mingo (REMAP #90)
Iowa DNR	6	BIO	See Below	919	Indian Creek	Colfax

Presumptive Class A1 - Indicator Bacteria:

Site ID

Data Source ID

# Samples per Year (2020/ 2021/2022)

2020 Geometric Mean

2021 Geometric Mean

2022 Geometric Mean

Violates Annual Geometric Mean?

# 2020 SSM violations / SSM Violations needed for impairment

# 2021 SSM violations / SSM Violations needed for impairment

# 2022 SSM violations / SSM Violations needed for impairment

Violates Annual SSM Significantly >10% Rule?

Assessment Type

Support Level

10500001

6/7/8

739

274

309

YES

6 / NA

5 / 3

3 / 3

YES

Mon

Not

Presumptive Class A1 – pH:

Site ID	Data Source ID	# Samples / # Years	Minimum Value	Maximum Value	Mean Value	# Violations	Violations needed for impairment	Violates Significantly >10% Rule?	Assessment Type	Support Level
10500001	6	36 / 3	7.2	8.8	8.1	0	7	NO	Mon	Full

Class BWW2 - Binomial Parameters:

Site ID	Data Source ID	Parameter Name	# Samples / # Years	Minimum Value	Maximum Value	Mean Value	# Violations	# Acute / Chronic Violations	Violations needed for impairment	Violates Significantly >10% Rule?	Assessment Type	Support Level
10500001	6	Chloride	36 / 3	17	58	30	NA	0 / 0	7	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Dissolved Oxygen	36 / 3	7.5	13.1	10	0	NA / NA	7	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	pH	36 / 3	7.2	8.8	8.1	0	NA / NA	7	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Sulfate	36 / 3	14	62	35	0	NA / NA	7	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Temperature	36 / 3	0	30.8	11.8	0	NA / NA	7	NO	Mon	Full

Class BWW2 - Toxic Parameters:

Site ID	Data Source ID	Parameter Name	# Samples / # Years	Maximum Value	Mean Value	Median Value	# Acute / Chronic Violations	>1 Acute / Chronic Violation	Assessment Type	Support Level
10500001	6	Ammonia	36 / 3	0.09	0.03	0.02	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Cadmium	20 / 3	0.5	0.5	0.5	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Chromium	20 / 3	2	0.69	0.52	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Lead	20 / 3	1	0.92	1	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Nickel	20 / 3	3.1	1.7	1.6	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Selenium	18 / 2	3	1.1	0.8	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Silver	20 / 3	1	0.902	1	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full
10500001	6	Zinc	20 / 3	2.5	0.7	0.5	0 / 0	NO	Mon	Full

Class BWW2 - Biological Sampling:

Benthic Macroinvertebrates:

BioNet Site ID	Date	Drainage Area (mi2)	Ecoregion	Major Drainage	BM Sample Gear	BMIBI score	BMIBI Class	BMIBI BIT	BMIBI Pass/Fail
376	9/16/21	254.9	47b	MS	Low Flow ArtSub	34	Fair	62	Fail
105	7/18/19	395.0	47f	MS	Floating ArtSub	65	Good	51	Pass
105	10/14/16	395.0	47f	MS	Floating ArtSub	47	Good	51	Fail

Fish:

BioNet Site ID	Date	Drainage Area (mi2)	Ecoregion	Major Drainage	Riffle Stream?	FIBI score	FIBI Class	47f FIBI BIT	FIBI Pass/Fail
376	9/16/21	254.9	47b	MS	NA	29	Fair	32	Pass*

Overall Assessment:

Community	Assessment Type	Assessment Result	Support Level	IR Category	Reason
Benthic Macroinvertebrates	Evaluated	Fail (1/3)	Not		*The FIBI score passed using the 7 pt. UAV applied to single samples.
Fish	Evaluated	Pass (1/1)	Full		Assessment was evaluated because a BMIBI sample used for the
Overall	Evaluated	Fail	Not	5bv	the assessment was not collected in a recent five-year period.

Class BWW2- Continuous DO Monitoring:

Site ID	Data Source ID	# Days Monitoring (2021)	DO Criteria Type	# 2021 violations / Violations needed for impairment	Violates Annual Significantly >10% Rule?	Assessment Type	Support Level
			24 hr	0/4	No
376	6	16	16 hr	0/4	No	Evaluated	Full

Monitoring and Methods

Assessment Key Dates

7/19/2019

Biological Monitoring

1/13/2020

Monitoring Start

12/6/2022

Monitoring End

10/14/2016

Biological Monitoring

9/16/2021

Biological Monitoring

9/1/2021

Monitoring Start

9/16/2021

Monitoring End

Methods

150

Monitoring data more than 5 years old

200

Physical/Chemical Monitoring

315

Regional reference site approach

320

Benthic macroinvertebrate surveys

420

Indicator bacteria monitoring