Final 2006 Integrated Report to Congress on the Condition of Water Resources in Kentucky
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Final 2006 Integrated Report to Congress on the Condition of Water Resources in Kentucky Volume II. 303(d) List of Surface Waters Kentucky Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet Division of Water April 2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Summary of the 2006 303(d) List of Impaired Waters.................................................. 1 Chapter 5. Status of TMDLs Under Development Prior to 2006................................. 4 5.1. Kentucky River Basin Unit....................................................................................... 4 5.1.1. Benson Creek Watershed Nutrient and Sediment TMDLs.............................. 4 5.1.2. Boone Creek/Baughman Fork Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, and Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................................... 4 5.1.3. Cane Run into North Elkhorn Creek Organic Enrichment TMDL 2006......... 5 5.1.4. Eagle Creek Watershed Pathogens TMDL 2006............................................. 5 5.1.5. Elkhorn Creek into Kentucky River ................................................................ 6 5.1.6. Herrington Lake Nutrient TMDL .................................................................... 6 5.1.7. Hickman Creek Watershed Nutrient, Organic Enrichment and Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................................... 6 5.1.8. Lower Howard Nutrient and Organic Enrichment TMDL .............................. 7 5.1.9. McConnell Run Nutrient and Sedimentation TMDL ...................................... 7 5.1.10. Pathogen TMDL Development...................................................................... 7 5.1.11. Potter Fork Organic Enrichment TMDL........................................................ 8 5.1.12. South Elkhorn Creek/Town Branch/Wolf Run Pathogen TMDL.................. 8 5.1.13. South Elkhorn Creek/Town Branch/Wolf Run Nutrient and Organic Enrichment TMDL......................................................................................... 8 5.1.14. Swift Camp Creek Nutrient and/or Sediment TMDL.................................... 9 5.1.15. Tate Creek Nutrient and Organic Enrichment TMDL................................... 9 5.2. Salt and Licking River Basins................................................................................... 9 5.2.1. Brooks Run Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, and Pathogen TMDLs................ 9 5.2.2. Fern Creek/Northern Ditch Nutrient and Organic Enrichment TMDLs........ 10 5.2.3. Hardins Creek Nutrient, Organic Enrichment and Sediment TMDLs........... 10 5.2.4. Beargrass Creek Organic Enrichment and Pathogen TMDLs ....................... 11 5.2.5. Woolper Creek Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, Suspended Solids and Sediment TMDLs......................................................................................... 12 5.2.6. Banklick Creek Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, Sediment, and Pathogen TMDLs......................................................................................................... 12 5.2.7. Elk Fork Sediment TMDL............................................................................. 13 5.2.8. Fleming Creek Nutrient and Organic Enrichment TMDL............................. 13 5.2.9. Hinkston Creek Nutrient and Sediment TMDL............................................. 14 5.2.10. Little Stoner Creek Pathogen TMDL........................................................... 14 5.2.11. Strodes Creek Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, Pathogen, and Sedimentation TMDL .......................................................................................................... 14 5.2.12. Three Mile Creek Nutrient, Organic Enrichment and Pathogen TMDL ..... 15 5.3. Green and Tradewater River Basins ....................................................................... 15 5.3.1. Bacon Creek Pathogens TMDL..................................................................... 15 5.3.2. pH TMDL Development............................................................................... 15 5.4. Upper Cumberland, Lower Cumberland, Mississippi, and Tennessee River Basins.................................................................................................................... 16 i 5.4.1. Little River Watershed TMDLs..................................................................... 16 5.4.2. Roundstone Creek Pathogen TMDLs ............................................................ 18 5.4.3. Bayou Creek Beta Particles and Metals TMDLs........................................... 18 5.4.4. Clarks River Watershed Nutrient, Organic Enrichment, and Pathogen TMDLs......................................................................................................... 19 5.5. Big Sandy, Little Sandy, and Tygarts Basins ......................................................... 19 5.6. Ohio River Mainstem.............................................................................................. 20 Chapter 6. TMDLs Planned for Development During 2006....................................... 21 6.1. Kentucky River Basin............................................................................................. 21 6.1.1. Dix River Watershed...................................................................................... 21 6.1.2. Eagle Creek Watershed.................................................................................. 21 6.1.3. Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................... 22 6.2. Salt and Licking River Basins................................................................................. 22 6.3. Green and Tradewater River Basins ....................................................................... 23 6.3.1. Hopkins County TMDLs ............................................................................... 23 6.3.2. Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................... 23 6.3.3. Panther Creek and Long Falls Creek Watersheds.......................................... 24 6.4. Upper Cumberland, Lower Cumberland, Mississippi, and Tennessee River Basins.................................................................................................................... 25 6.4.1. Upper Cumberland/Rockcastle River Organic Enrichment TMDLs............. 25 6.4.2. Lower Cumberland Pathogen TMDLs........................................................... 26 6.5. Big Sandy, Little Sandy, and Tygarts Basins ......................................................... 26 Chapter 7. TMDLs Planned for Development During 2007....................................... 27 7.1. Kentucky River Basin............................................................................................. 27 7.1.1. Cane Run Creek TMDLs ............................................................................... 27 7.2. Salt/Licking River Basin......................................................................................... 27 7.2.1. Gunpowder Creek TMDLs ............................................................................ 27 7.3. Green/Tradewater Basin ......................................................................................... 28 7.3.1. Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................... 28 7.3.2. Valley Creek Watershed TMDLs .................................................................. 28 7.3.3. Deer Creek Watershed TMDLs ..................................................................... 28 7.3.4. Bacon Creek Watershed TMDLs................................................................... 29 7.3.5. Clear Creek Watershed TMDLs .................................................................... 29 7.4. Tennessee/Mississippi/Cumberland Basin.............................................................. 30 7.4.1. Pathogen TMDLs........................................................................................... 30 7.4.2. Pleasant Grove Creek Watershed TMDLs..................................................... 30 7.4.3. Laurel River Watershed TMDLs…………………………………………….30 7.5. Big Sandy, Little Sandy, and Tygarts Basin……………………………………...32 7.5.1. Elkhorn Creek Watershed TMDLs ................................................................ 32 7.5.2. Right Fork Beaver Creek Watershed TMDLs ............................................... 32 Chapter 8. Kentucky River Basin Unit 303(d) List ..................................................... 35 8.1 Kentucky River Basin Streams ................................................................................ 35 8.2 Kentucky River Basin Lakes ................................................................................... 70 Chapter 9. Salt-Licking Basin Unit 303(d) List ........................................................... 72 9.1 Licking River Basin Streams ................................................................................... 72 9.2 Licking River Basin Lakes....................................................................................... 91 ii 9.3 Ohio River Basin Streams........................................................................................ 92 9.5 Salt River Basin Streams ......................................................................................... 98 9.6 Salt River Basin Lakes........................................................................................... 121 Chapter 10. Tennessee-Mississippi-Cumberland