Lower Cumberland Watershed Watershed Cumberland Lower The

ALL PHOTOS BY BYRON JORJORIAN BYRON BY PHOTOS ALL

ECOLOGIST AND AUTHOR AND ECOLOGIST

LUNA LEOPOLD LEOPOLD LUNA —

of how we live on the land.” the on live we how of

Eddy Creek Eddy pathogens

27 Y4 KY Off-road vehicle Off-road

Dry Creek to to Creek Dry Sediment/siltation and and Sediment/siltation measure principal the is waters our of health “The

depletion and temperature and depletion

aeBrlyRsrorT N/A TN Reservoir Barkley Lake Cooling water discharges water Cooling

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

depletion and nutrients and depletion of nature healthy for future generations. future for healthy nature of

25 Hematite Lake KY 85 acres 85 KY Lake Hematite Agriculture and sources unknown sources and Agriculture

Organic enrichment /oxygen /oxygen enrichment Organic

our big rivers. Practice good stream stewardship no matter where you live so that we keep these gifts gifts these keep we that so live you where matter no stewardship stream good Practice rivers. big our

small streams often appear insignificant, but in fact are very important, as they feed into and create create and into feed they as important, very are fact in but insignificant, appear often streams small 24 Sources unknown Sources Unknown 2 KY Creek Dry to Tributary

streams is critical to the health of the entire river network and downstream communities. These These communities. downstream and network river entire the of health the to critical is streams

23 Sources unknown Sources Unknown 6 KY Creek Skinner as headwater streams, and are often unnamed and rarely appear on maps. Yet the health of small small of health the Yet maps. on appear rarely and unnamed often are and streams, headwater as

that overflows into the stream. These small streams with flow only parts of the year are referred to to referred are year the of parts only flow with streams small These stream. the into overflows that

22 Sources unknown Sources Nutrients 5 TN Branch Wall

of snowmelt running down a mountainside or a spring-fed pond or depression filled with rainwater rainwater with filled depression or pond spring-fed a or mountainside a down running snowmelt of

up the majority of the waters. Streamflow could come from a drizzle drizzle a from come could Streamflow waters. the of majority the up

Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 6 KY Creek Sugar

Small streams, including those that don’t flow all of the time, make make time, the of all flow don’t that those including streams, Small

20 Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 5 KY Creek Richland

species that inhabit the watershed. the inhabit that species

depletion

alligator snapping turtle are among the the among are turtle snapping alligator 19 ateBac N4 TN Branch Bartee Upstream impoundments Upstream

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

blue sucker, Southern cavefish and the the and cavefish Southern sucker, blue

18 Sources unknown Sources Unknown 6 KY Branch Lower reptile. The hellbender, eyeless crayfish, crayfish, eyeless hellbender, The reptile.

crustaceans, two fish species and one one and species fish two crustaceans,

17 Sources unknown Sources Sediment 1 KY Branch Pond Long

including one amphibian, two two amphibian, one including

is home to a number of rare species species rare of number a to home is

Sources unknown Sources unknown and Pathogens 2 KY Creek Ferguson

The Lower Cumberland Watershed Watershed Cumberland Lower The

15 Municipal run-off Municipal Pathogens 14 TN Branch Erin

and tobacco. and

Golden Horn Creek Horn Golden

and cattle with some cultivation of corn corn of cultivation some with cattle and

crop production crop sediment and

N16 TN Creek Bud’s

Grazing in riparian zones and non-irrigated non-irrigated and zones riparian in Grazing alterations Habitat

between streams and in stream and river valleys: mostly hay, pasture pasture hay, mostly valleys: river and stream in and streams between Antioch Creek Antioch

is again heavily forested. Some agriculture occurs on flatter areas areas flatter on occurs agriculture Some forested. heavily again is

Agriculture Sediment 6 KY Creek Sugar 13

ore related mining and smelting of mineral limonite, but now the region region the now but limonite, mineral of smelting and mining related ore

depletion and turbidity and depletion was mostly deforested in the mid- to late 1800s, in conjunction with iron iron with conjunction in 1800s, late to mid- the in deforested mostly was

organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 12

gradients, and relatively clear water. The oak-hickory natural vegetation vegetation natural oak-hickory The water. clear relatively and gradients, amn re Y0.2 KY Creek Hammond Municipal point source discharges source point Municipal

pathogens, nutrients, nutrients, pathogens,

chert gravel and sand substrates with areas of bedrock, moderate moderate bedrock, of areas with substrates sand and gravel chert Ammonia, chlorine, chlorine, Ammonia,

A majority of streams in the watershed are characterized by coarse coarse by characterized are watershed the in streams of majority A

SUSPECTED SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF SOURCES SUSPECTED POLLUTANT MILES STATE SEGMENT STREAM #

Table

hydrostructure flow regulation/modification flow hydrostructure

(e.g., for navigation channels) and impacts from from impacts and channels) navigation for (e.g.,

each bioregion. each

de Chien de

(crop or dry land), loss of riparian habitat, dredging dredging habitat, riparian of loss land), dry or (crop sediment and Nutrients 7 KY

South Fork of Bayou Bayou of Fork South

that are attainable in in attainable are that hydromodifications, agriculture, crop production production crop agriculture, hydromodifications,

Channel erosion/incision from upstream upstream from erosion/incision Channel those least-disturbed conditions conditions least-disturbed those

pristine streams, but represent represent but streams, pristine

10 Dredge mining Dredge Unknown 2 KY Creek Donaldson

bioregion. These are not necessarily necessarily not are These bioregion.

sources unknown sources

stream systems in each representative representative each in systems stream

alterations and unknown and alterations

ad re Y2 KY Creek Sandy zone, non-irrigated crop production and and production crop non-irrigated zone,

(physical, chemical or biological) to similar similar to biological) or chemical (physical, Pathogens, sediment, habitat habitat sediment, Pathogens,

Dredge mining, grazing in riparian or shoreline shoreline or riparian in grazing mining, Dredge

to determine the degree of impairment impairment of degree the determine to

non-irrigated crop production crop non-irrigated

physical and biological models from which which from models biological and physical

Cypress Creek Cypress production (crop land or dry land) and and land) dry or land (crop production sediment and

Y12 KY

These streams serve as chemical, chemical, as serve streams These Claylick Creek Claylick operations), loss of riparian habitat, crop crop habitat, riparian of loss operations), nutrients Pathogens,

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture, a bioregion. bioregion. a

streams within within streams Skinframe Creek Skinframe

channelization and sources unknown sources and channelization unknown and sediment

Crab Creek Crab

least-impacted least-impacted 7

crop production, loss of ripariarn habitat, habitat, ripariarn of loss production, crop conditions, acidity/caustic 11 KY

Spring Creek Spring

Agriculture, grazing in riparian zone, zone, riparian in grazing Agriculture, pH/ nutrients, Pathogens,

and are a representative subpopulation of the the of subpopulation representative a are and Livingston Creek Creek Livingston

Creek in Kentucky are reference reach waters waters reach reference are Kentucky in Creek

off-road vehicles and sources unknown sources and vehicles off-road

and unknown and

6 Sugar Creek, Donaldson Creek and Crooked Crooked and Creek Donaldson Creek, Sugar

dyCek Y7 KY Creek Eddy package plant or other permitted small flows, flows, small permitted other or plant package

Pathogens, sediment sediment Pathogens,

Agriculture, animal feeding operations (NPS), (NPS), operations feeding animal Agriculture, Watershed are categorized as reference reaches. reaches. reference as categorized are Watershed

Three Kentucky streams in the Lower Cumberland Cumberland Lower the in streams Kentucky Three

5 Sanitary sewer system failures system sewer Sanitary Pathogens 12 KY Fork Muddy

depletion

Recreational Area. Area. Recreational

operations) and loss of riparian habitat riparian of loss and operations)

4 organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 33 KY Fork Sinking

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture,

eastern boundary of Land Between the Lakes National National Lakes the Between Land of boundary eastern Sediment, nutrients and and nutrients Sediment,

This watershed includes Lake Barkley Reservoir, which forms the the forms which Reservoir, Barkley Lake includes watershed This

modifications/destabilization

depletion and pathogens and depletion

habitat, channelization and streambank streambank and channelization habitat,

enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen

iteRvrK 43 KY River Little urban runoff/storm sewers, loss of riparian riparian of loss sewers, runoff/storm urban 3

recreational attributes that support game fishery. fishery. game support that attributes recreational

mercury, pathogens, organic organic pathogens, mercury,

discharges, habitat modification, crop production, production, crop modification, habitat discharges,

Nutrients, sediment, sediment, Nutrients,

specific interest and listed on the National Rivers Inventory for their scenic and and scenic their for Inventory Rivers National the on listed and interest specific Agriculture, impoundment, municipal point source source point municipal impoundment, Agriculture,

streams in the watershed, Long Creek and Yellow Creek in Tennessee, are of of are Tennessee, in Creek Yellow and Creek Long watershed, the in streams

and sources unknown sources and sediment

iteMAo re N15 TN Creek McAdoo Little

Seventy-two rare plant and animal species live within the watershed. Two Two watershed. the within live species animal and plant rare Seventy-two Non-irrigated crop production, land development development land production, crop Non-irrigated and nutrients Pathogens,

1 Grazing in riparian zone riparian in Grazing Pathogens 4 TN Creek Bartons Little

watershed is in Tennessee and 57 percent in Kentucky. in percent 57 and Tennessee in is watershed

1,259 stream miles and 37,000 lake acres. Forty-three percent of the the of percent Forty-three acres. lake 37,000 and miles stream 1,259

SUSPECTED SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF SOURCES SUSPECTED POLLUTANT MILES STATE SEGMENT STREAM # in Tennessee and 1,361 square miles in Kentucky), with a total of total a with Kentucky), in miles square 1,361 and Tennessee in

It measures approximately 2,343 square miles (982 square miles square (982 miles square 2,343 approximately measures It

rural watershed of agricultural and forested land cover. cover. land forested and agricultural of watershed rural

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED CUMBERLAND LOWER

is primarily a a primarily is The

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED: CUMBERLAND LOWER How our water is being affected being is water our How

What can I do to keep my streams and rivers clean?

• Leave a 35’ to 100’ no mow zone between streams and activity that disturbs, compacts or removes soil.

• Harvest rainwater from roof tops using rain barrels or larger cisterns. 37213

• Keep livestock fenced away from streams and rivers. • Don’t pour toxic household chemicals down the

drain; take them to a hazardous waste center. tennessee , • Use hardy plants that require little or no watering, fertilizers or pesticides in your yard. • Do not over apply fertilizers. Consider using nashville organic or slow release fertilizers instead. | This brochure describes the current • Recycle yard waste in a compost pile and use a 300 mulching mower. water quality of the Lower Cumberland Watershed and is produced and • Use pervious surfaces like wood, brick or gravel for suite decks and walkways; this allows rain to soak in and , distributed by the Cumberland River not run off. Compact. It is based on current water avenue • Never pour used oil or antifreeze into the storm sampling collected and interpreted drain or the street. by the Tennessee Department of

• Pick up after your dog, and dispose of the waste victory Environment and Conservation

in the toilet or the trash. and the Kentucky Division of Water two • Drive less — walk or bike; many pollutants in our with assistance from the Nature waters come from car exhaust and car leaks. Conservancy, Tennessee Chapter. • Join watershed clean-up efforts and An overview of restoration activities. The Lower Cumberland Watershed is • Encourage greenways, conservation easements our water quality and other practices that protect the land around one of 14 watersheds in Tennessee and our rivers and streams. Kentucky that make up the Cumberland • Become a member of the Cumberland River River basin. Compact and visit cumberlandrivercompact.org often to keep up to date.

CRC222.13 Lake Cumberland MAP_larger3.indd 1 2/3/14 2:21 PM

ALL PHOTOS BY BYRON JORJORIAN BYRON BY PHOTOS ALL

ECOLOGIST AND AUTHOR AND ECOLOGIST

LUNA LEOPOLD LEOPOLD LUNA —

of how we live on the land.” the on live we how of

Eddy Creek Eddy pathogens

27 Y4 KY Off-road vehicle Off-road

Dry Creek to to Creek Dry Sediment/siltation and and Sediment/siltation measure principal the is waters our of health “The

depletion and temperature and depletion

aeBrlyRsrorT N/A TN Reservoir Barkley Lake Cooling water discharges water Cooling

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

depletion and nutrients and depletion of nature healthy for future generations. future for healthy nature of

25 Hematite Lake KY 85 acres 85 KY Lake Hematite Agriculture and sources unknown sources and Agriculture

Organic enrichment /oxygen /oxygen enrichment Organic

streams is critical to the health of the entire river network and downstream communities. These These communities. downstream and network river entire the of health the to critical is streams

22 Sources unknown Sources Nutrients 5 TN Branch Wall

of snowmelt running down a mountainside or a spring-fed pond or depression filled with rainwater rainwater with filled depression or pond spring-fed a or mountainside a down running snowmelt of

up the majority of the waters. Streamflow could come from a drizzle drizzle a from come could Streamflow waters. the of majority the up

Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 6 KY Creek Sugar

Small streams, including those that don’t flow all of the time, make make time, the of all flow don’t that those including streams, Small

20 Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 5 KY Creek Richland

species that inhabit the watershed. the inhabit that species

depletion

alligator snapping turtle are among the the among are turtle snapping alligator 19 ateBac N4 TN Branch Bartee Upstream impoundments Upstream

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

blue sucker, Southern cavefish and the the and cavefish Southern sucker, blue

18 Sources unknown Sources Unknown 6 KY Branch Lower reptile. The hellbender, eyeless crayfish, crayfish, eyeless hellbender, The reptile.

crustaceans, two fish species and one one and species fish two crustaceans,

17 Sources unknown Sources Sediment 1 KY Branch Pond Long

including one amphibian, two two amphibian, one including

is home to a number of rare species species rare of number a to home is

Sources unknown Sources unknown and Pathogens 2 KY Creek Ferguson

The Lower Cumberland Watershed Watershed Cumberland Lower The

15 Municipal run-off Municipal Pathogens 14 TN Branch Erin

and tobacco. and

Golden Horn Creek Horn Golden

and cattle with some cultivation of corn corn of cultivation some with cattle and

crop production crop sediment and

N16 TN Creek Bud’s

Grazing in riparian zones and non-irrigated non-irrigated and zones riparian in Grazing alterations Habitat

between streams and in stream and river valleys: mostly hay, pasture pasture hay, mostly valleys: river and stream in and streams between Antioch Creek Antioch

is again heavily forested. Some agriculture occurs on flatter areas areas flatter on occurs agriculture Some forested. heavily again is

Agriculture Sediment 6 KY Creek Sugar 13

ore related mining and smelting of mineral limonite, but now the region region the now but limonite, mineral of smelting and mining related ore

depletion and turbidity and depletion was mostly deforested in the mid- to late 1800s, in conjunction with iron iron with conjunction in 1800s, late to mid- the in deforested mostly was

organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 12

pathogens, nutrients, nutrients, pathogens,

chert gravel and sand substrates with areas of bedrock, moderate moderate bedrock, of areas with substrates sand and gravel chert Ammonia, chlorine, chlorine, Ammonia,

A majority of streams in the watershed are characterized by coarse coarse by characterized are watershed the in streams of majority A

SUSPECTED SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF SOURCES SUSPECTED POLLUTANT MILES STATE SEGMENT STREAM #

Table

hydrostructure flow regulation/modification flow hydrostructure

(e.g., for navigation channels) and impacts from from impacts and channels) navigation for (e.g.,

each bioregion. each

de Chien de

(crop or dry land), loss of riparian habitat, dredging dredging habitat, riparian of loss land), dry or (crop sediment and Nutrients 7 KY

South Fork of Bayou Bayou of Fork South

that are attainable in in attainable are that hydromodifications, agriculture, crop production production crop agriculture, hydromodifications,

Channel erosion/incision from upstream upstream from erosion/incision Channel those least-disturbed conditions conditions least-disturbed those

pristine streams, but represent represent but streams, pristine

10 Dredge mining Dredge Unknown 2 KY Creek Donaldson

bioregion. These are not necessarily necessarily not are These bioregion.

sources unknown sources

stream systems in each representative representative each in systems stream

alterations and unknown and alterations

ad re Y2 KY Creek Sandy zone, non-irrigated crop production and and production crop non-irrigated zone,

(physical, chemical or biological) to similar similar to biological) or chemical (physical, Pathogens, sediment, habitat habitat sediment, Pathogens,

Dredge mining, grazing in riparian or shoreline shoreline or riparian in grazing mining, Dredge

to determine the degree of impairment impairment of degree the determine to

non-irrigated crop production crop non-irrigated

physical and biological models from which which from models biological and physical

Cypress Creek Cypress production (crop land or dry land) and and land) dry or land (crop production sediment and

Y12 KY

These streams serve as chemical, chemical, as serve streams These Claylick Creek Claylick operations), loss of riparian habitat, crop crop habitat, riparian of loss operations), nutrients Pathogens,

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture, a bioregion. bioregion. a

streams within within streams Skinframe Creek Skinframe

channelization and sources unknown sources and channelization unknown and sediment

Crab Creek Crab

least-impacted least-impacted 7

crop production, loss of ripariarn habitat, habitat, ripariarn of loss production, crop conditions, acidity/caustic 11 KY

Spring Creek Spring

Agriculture, grazing in riparian zone, zone, riparian in grazing Agriculture, pH/ nutrients, Pathogens,

and are a representative subpopulation of the the of subpopulation representative a are and Livingston Creek Creek Livingston

Creek in Kentucky are reference reach waters waters reach reference are Kentucky in Creek

off-road vehicles and sources unknown sources and vehicles off-road

and unknown and

6 Sugar Creek, Donaldson Creek and Crooked Crooked and Creek Donaldson Creek, Sugar

dyCek Y7 KY Creek Eddy package plant or other permitted small flows, flows, small permitted other or plant package

Pathogens, sediment sediment Pathogens,

Agriculture, animal feeding operations (NPS), (NPS), operations feeding animal Agriculture, Watershed are categorized as reference reaches. reaches. reference as categorized are Watershed

Three Kentucky streams in the Lower Cumberland Cumberland Lower the in streams Kentucky Three

5 Sanitary sewer system failures system sewer Sanitary Pathogens 12 KY Fork Muddy

depletion

Recreational Area. Area. Recreational

operations) and loss of riparian habitat riparian of loss and operations)

4 organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 33 KY Fork Sinking

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture,

eastern boundary of Land Between the Lakes National National Lakes the Between Land of boundary eastern Sediment, nutrients and and nutrients Sediment,

This watershed includes Lake Barkley Reservoir, which forms the the forms which Reservoir, Barkley Lake includes watershed This

modifications/destabilization

depletion and pathogens and depletion

habitat, channelization and streambank streambank and channelization habitat,

enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen

iteRvrK 43 KY River Little urban runoff/storm sewers, loss of riparian riparian of loss sewers, runoff/storm urban 3

recreational attributes that support game fishery. fishery. game support that attributes recreational

mercury, pathogens, organic organic pathogens, mercury,

discharges, habitat modification, crop production, production, crop modification, habitat discharges,

Nutrients, sediment, sediment, Nutrients,

streams in the watershed, Long Creek and Yellow Creek in Tennessee, are of of are Tennessee, in Creek Yellow and Creek Long watershed, the in streams

and sources unknown sources and sediment

iteMAo re N15 TN Creek McAdoo Little

1 Grazing in riparian zone riparian in Grazing Pathogens 4 TN Creek Bartons Little

watershed is in Tennessee and 57 percent in Kentucky. in percent 57 and Tennessee in is watershed

1,259 stream miles and 37,000 lake acres. Forty-three percent of the the of percent Forty-three acres. lake 37,000 and miles stream 1,259

It measures approximately 2,343 square miles (982 square miles square (982 miles square 2,343 approximately measures It

rural watershed of agricultural and forested land cover. cover. land forested and agricultural of watershed rural

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED CUMBERLAND LOWER

is primarily a a primarily is The

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED: CUMBERLAND LOWER How our water is being affected being is water our How

What can I do to keep my streams and rivers clean?

• Leave a 35’ to 100’ no mow zone between streams and activity that disturbs, compacts or removes soil.

• Harvest rainwater from roof tops using rain barrels or larger cisterns. 37213

• Keep livestock fenced away from streams and rivers. • Don’t pour toxic household chemicals down the

• Pick up after your dog, and dispose of the waste victory Environment and Conservation

CRC222.13 Lake Cumberland MAP_larger3.indd 1 2/3/14 2:21 PM

ALL PHOTOS BY BYRON JORJORIAN BYRON BY PHOTOS ALL

ECOLOGIST AND AUTHOR AND ECOLOGIST

LUNA LEOPOLD LEOPOLD LUNA —

of how we live on the land.” the on live we how of

Eddy Creek Eddy pathogens

27 Y4 KY Off-road vehicle Off-road

Dry Creek to to Creek Dry Sediment/siltation and and Sediment/siltation measure principal the is waters our of health “The

depletion and temperature and depletion

aeBrlyRsrorT N/A TN Reservoir Barkley Lake Cooling water discharges water Cooling

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

depletion and nutrients and depletion of nature healthy for future generations. future for healthy nature of

25 Hematite Lake KY 85 acres 85 KY Lake Hematite Agriculture and sources unknown sources and Agriculture

Organic enrichment /oxygen /oxygen enrichment Organic

streams is critical to the health of the entire river network and downstream communities. These These communities. downstream and network river entire the of health the to critical is streams

22 Sources unknown Sources Nutrients 5 TN Branch Wall

of snowmelt running down a mountainside or a spring-fed pond or depression filled with rainwater rainwater with filled depression or pond spring-fed a or mountainside a down running snowmelt of

up the majority of the waters. Streamflow could come from a drizzle drizzle a from come could Streamflow waters. the of majority the up

Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 6 KY Creek Sugar

Small streams, including those that don’t flow all of the time, make make time, the of all flow don’t that those including streams, Small

20 Sources unknown Sources Pathogens 5 KY Creek Richland

species that inhabit the watershed. the inhabit that species

depletion

alligator snapping turtle are among the the among are turtle snapping alligator 19 ateBac N4 TN Branch Bartee Upstream impoundments Upstream

Organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen Organic

blue sucker, Southern cavefish and the the and cavefish Southern sucker, blue

18 Sources unknown Sources Unknown 6 KY Branch Lower reptile. The hellbender, eyeless crayfish, crayfish, eyeless hellbender, The reptile.

crustaceans, two fish species and one one and species fish two crustaceans,

17 Sources unknown Sources Sediment 1 KY Branch Pond Long

including one amphibian, two two amphibian, one including

is home to a number of rare species species rare of number a to home is

Sources unknown Sources unknown and Pathogens 2 KY Creek Ferguson

The Lower Cumberland Watershed Watershed Cumberland Lower The

15 Municipal run-off Municipal Pathogens 14 TN Branch Erin

and tobacco. and

Golden Horn Creek Horn Golden

and cattle with some cultivation of corn corn of cultivation some with cattle and

crop production crop sediment and

N16 TN Creek Bud’s

Grazing in riparian zones and non-irrigated non-irrigated and zones riparian in Grazing alterations Habitat

between streams and in stream and river valleys: mostly hay, pasture pasture hay, mostly valleys: river and stream in and streams between Antioch Creek Antioch

is again heavily forested. Some agriculture occurs on flatter areas areas flatter on occurs agriculture Some forested. heavily again is

Agriculture Sediment 6 KY Creek Sugar 13

ore related mining and smelting of mineral limonite, but now the region region the now but limonite, mineral of smelting and mining related ore

depletion and turbidity and depletion was mostly deforested in the mid- to late 1800s, in conjunction with iron iron with conjunction in 1800s, late to mid- the in deforested mostly was

organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 12

pathogens, nutrients, nutrients, pathogens,

chert gravel and sand substrates with areas of bedrock, moderate moderate bedrock, of areas with substrates sand and gravel chert Ammonia, chlorine, chlorine, Ammonia,

A majority of streams in the watershed are characterized by coarse coarse by characterized are watershed the in streams of majority A

SUSPECTED SOURCES OF POLLUTION OF SOURCES SUSPECTED POLLUTANT MILES STATE SEGMENT STREAM #

Table

hydrostructure flow regulation/modification flow hydrostructure

(e.g., for navigation channels) and impacts from from impacts and channels) navigation for (e.g.,

each bioregion. each

de Chien de

(crop or dry land), loss of riparian habitat, dredging dredging habitat, riparian of loss land), dry or (crop sediment and Nutrients 7 KY

South Fork of Bayou Bayou of Fork South

that are attainable in in attainable are that hydromodifications, agriculture, crop production production crop agriculture, hydromodifications,

Channel erosion/incision from upstream upstream from erosion/incision Channel those least-disturbed conditions conditions least-disturbed those

pristine streams, but represent represent but streams, pristine

10 Dredge mining Dredge Unknown 2 KY Creek Donaldson

bioregion. These are not necessarily necessarily not are These bioregion.

sources unknown sources

stream systems in each representative representative each in systems stream

alterations and unknown and alterations

ad re Y2 KY Creek Sandy zone, non-irrigated crop production and and production crop non-irrigated zone,

(physical, chemical or biological) to similar similar to biological) or chemical (physical, Pathogens, sediment, habitat habitat sediment, Pathogens,

Dredge mining, grazing in riparian or shoreline shoreline or riparian in grazing mining, Dredge

to determine the degree of impairment impairment of degree the determine to

non-irrigated crop production crop non-irrigated

physical and biological models from which which from models biological and physical

Cypress Creek Cypress production (crop land or dry land) and and land) dry or land (crop production sediment and

Y12 KY

These streams serve as chemical, chemical, as serve streams These Claylick Creek Claylick operations), loss of riparian habitat, crop crop habitat, riparian of loss operations), nutrients Pathogens,

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture, a bioregion. bioregion. a

streams within within streams Skinframe Creek Skinframe

channelization and sources unknown sources and channelization unknown and sediment

Crab Creek Crab

least-impacted least-impacted 7

crop production, loss of ripariarn habitat, habitat, ripariarn of loss production, crop conditions, acidity/caustic 11 KY

Spring Creek Spring

Agriculture, grazing in riparian zone, zone, riparian in grazing Agriculture, pH/ nutrients, Pathogens,

and are a representative subpopulation of the the of subpopulation representative a are and Livingston Creek Creek Livingston

Creek in Kentucky are reference reach waters waters reach reference are Kentucky in Creek

off-road vehicles and sources unknown sources and vehicles off-road

and unknown and

6 Sugar Creek, Donaldson Creek and Crooked Crooked and Creek Donaldson Creek, Sugar

dyCek Y7 KY Creek Eddy package plant or other permitted small flows, flows, small permitted other or plant package

Pathogens, sediment sediment Pathogens,

Agriculture, animal feeding operations (NPS), (NPS), operations feeding animal Agriculture, Watershed are categorized as reference reaches. reaches. reference as categorized are Watershed

Three Kentucky streams in the Lower Cumberland Cumberland Lower the in streams Kentucky Three

5 Sanitary sewer system failures system sewer Sanitary Pathogens 12 KY Fork Muddy

depletion

Recreational Area. Area. Recreational

operations) and loss of riparian habitat riparian of loss and operations)

4 organic enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen organic 33 KY Fork Sinking

Agriculture, livestock (grazing or feeding feeding or (grazing livestock Agriculture,

eastern boundary of Land Between the Lakes National National Lakes the Between Land of boundary eastern Sediment, nutrients and and nutrients Sediment,

This watershed includes Lake Barkley Reservoir, which forms the the forms which Reservoir, Barkley Lake includes watershed This

modifications/destabilization

depletion and pathogens and depletion

habitat, channelization and streambank streambank and channelization habitat,

enrichment/oxygen enrichment/oxygen

iteRvrK 43 KY River Little urban runoff/storm sewers, loss of riparian riparian of loss sewers, runoff/storm urban 3

recreational attributes that support game fishery. fishery. game support that attributes recreational

mercury, pathogens, organic organic pathogens, mercury,

discharges, habitat modification, crop production, production, crop modification, habitat discharges,

Nutrients, sediment, sediment, Nutrients,

streams in the watershed, Long Creek and Yellow Creek in Tennessee, are of of are Tennessee, in Creek Yellow and Creek Long watershed, the in streams

and sources unknown sources and sediment

iteMAo re N15 TN Creek McAdoo Little

1 Grazing in riparian zone riparian in Grazing Pathogens 4 TN Creek Bartons Little

watershed is in Tennessee and 57 percent in Kentucky. in percent 57 and Tennessee in is watershed

1,259 stream miles and 37,000 lake acres. Forty-three percent of the the of percent Forty-three acres. lake 37,000 and miles stream 1,259

It measures approximately 2,343 square miles (982 square miles square (982 miles square 2,343 approximately measures It

rural watershed of agricultural and forested land cover. cover. land forested and agricultural of watershed rural

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED CUMBERLAND LOWER

is primarily a a primarily is The

LOWER CUMBERLAND WATERSHED: CUMBERLAND LOWER How our water is being affected being is water our How

What can I do to keep my streams and rivers clean?

• Leave a 35’ to 100’ no mow zone between streams and activity that disturbs, compacts or removes soil.

• Harvest rainwater from roof tops using rain barrels or larger cisterns. 37213

• Keep livestock fenced away from streams and rivers. • Don’t pour toxic household chemicals down the

• Pick up after your dog, and dispose of the waste victory Environment and Conservation

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Lower Cumberland Watershed

Approximately 67 miles of P H P H P H P P pH H P H P H waterways in the Lower Cumberland Watershed are 1 N MN2 MN3 4 N 5 6 7 N 8 N 9 N MAP KEY considered impaired. S S UR SU S U U S U S S U County seats Little Bartons Little McAdoo Little River Sinking Fork Muddy Fork Eddy Creek Livingston Creek Claylick Creek Sandy Creek CONDITIONS OF IMPAIRMENT KEY Creek Creek Spring Creek Cypress Creek Other incorporated towns Crab Creek P Pathogens Skinframe Creek pH H P Streams that contain conditions that pH Acidic pH H P are a threat to human health and/or have H Habitat loss or alteration N an impaired ecology 10 11 N 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 M Metals U S S S S U National Rivers Inventory streams: N Nutrients a registry of river segments noted Donaldson Creek South Fork of Hammond Creek Sugar Creek Antioch Creek Erin Branch Ferguson Creek Long Pond Lower Branch for their scenic and recreational attributes S Sediment Bayou de Chien Bud’s Creek Branch Golden Horn Creek For more information, visit U Unknown causes or sources nps.gov/ncrc/programs/rtca/nri H P P P UR Urban runoff This work was funded in part by a grant from the U.S. N Environmental Protection Agency under §319(h) For more information, please see 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 of the Clean Water Act. corresponding table on reverse side. The majority of blue streams on the U U U U S map have not been assessed for water quality. Bartee Branch Richland Creek Sugar Creek Wall Branch Skinner Creek Tributary to Hematite Lake Lake Barkley Dry Creek to Dry Creek Reservoir Eddy Creek

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