A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Sunday Creek Watershed Third Edition 2010 A Collaboration of the Partners of the Sunday Creek Watershed Group and the Residents of the Sunday Creek Watershed Revised by: Amber Leasure-Earnhardt Sunday Creek Watershed Coordinator Glouster, Ohio 69 High Street Glouster, Ohio 45732 740-767-2225 www.sundaycreek.org Sponsored by Rural Action, Inc. Table of Contents Section I: Watershed Overview Chapter I. Introduction Watershed Description..............................................................................................................................11 History of the Sunday Creek Valley In the Beginning ........................................................................................................................12 Boom and Bust Cycles of the Towns.......................................................................................13 Brief Histories of Four Towns within the Watershed......................................................13-15 Social and Cultural Resources .................................................................................................15 Demographics and Economic Infrastructure.........................................................................................16 Age and Sex Ratios ...................................................................................................................16 Economic Characteristics..........................................................................................................16 Occupations and Industry........................................................................................................17 Housing and Infrastructure......................................................................................................17 Poverty, Unemployment, and Education Statistics..............................................................18 People Living and Working in the Watershed......................................................................19 Economic Benefits of Restoration............................................................................................19 Chapter II. Watershed Plan Development Project Background………………………………………………….........................................................21 Organizational Structure of Watershed Group……………............................................................22-23 Collaboration at Work..........................................................................................................24-25 Purpose of the Management Plan …………...........................................................................................26 Development of the Management Plan ............................................................................................26-28 Historic Watershed Community Survey Results ............................................................29-31 Endorsement and Adoption of Plan…………...................................................................................32-33 Chapter III. Watershed Inventory Geology……………………………….......................................................................................................34 Topography...............................................................................................................................35 Soils…………………………………….................................................................................................35-36 Septic Tank Absorption Fields................................................................................................37 Highly Erodible Soils...............................................................................................................37 Land Use ………………………………...............................................................................................38-39 Agriculture ..........................................................................................................................39-40 Local Community Parks..........................................................................................................40 Federal and State Owned Land..............................................................................................41 Sunday Creek and Trimble Wildlife Areas...........................................................................42 Trimble Township Community Forest..................................................................................43 Biological Features Federally Listed Threatened, Rare, or Endangered Species...............................................43 State Listed Rare Animals, Plants, and Plant Communities.........................................44-47 Flora and Fauna........................................................................................................................48 Water Resources Climate and Precipitation........................................................................................................49 Surface Water- Wetlands and Streams.............................................................................49-50 Flow.......................................................................................................................................52-53 100 yr. Floodplain.....................................................................................................................53 Sinuosity ...................................................................................................................................54 Permitted Discharges...............................................................................................................56 Entrenchment and Floodplain Connectivity........................................................................56 Lakes and Reservoirs...............................................................................................................57 Groundwater (SWAP and DRASTIC maps). .................................................................57-61 A Comprehensive Management Plan for the Sunday Creek Watershed, Third Edition 2010 Page 2 Table of Contents (Continued) Section II. Watershed Action Plans for 14 digit HUC Subwatersheds Introduction Hydrological Unit Codes (HUCs).......................................................................................................63 Chapter I: Water Quality Standards and Impairments Historic Aquatic Use Designations for Sunday Creek.............................................................64-65 Ohio Water Quality Standards: Designated Aquatic Life Uses...............................66-67 Ohio Water Quality Standards: Non-Aquatic Life Uses................................................68 Aquatic Habitat....................................................................................................................69 Overview of Current and Historical Water Quality Inventory Interpretation of Biological Sampling .........................................................................70-72 Macroinvertebrate Sampling..............................................................................................73 Sunday Creek AMDAT Plan.........................................................................................73-76 Sunday Creek TMDL Study .........................................................................................76-78 Summer AmeriCorps* VISTA Data- 2001.........................................................................78 Water Quality Targets and Standards..........................................................................78-80 Water Quality Impairments.................................................................................................................81 Issue: Acid Mine Drainage.............................................................................................82-87 Issue: Improperly Treated Wastewater.........................................................................88-90 Issue: Illegal Trash Dumping and Urban Run-off......................................................91-93 Issue: Erosion and Sedimentation.................................................................................94-97 Issue: Flooding..................................................................................................................98-99 Chapter II: East Branch Sunday Creek Subwatershed Description.................................................................................................................100 Water Quality Inventory ....................................................................................................................101 Subwatershed Impairments...............................................................................................................101 Restoration and Protection Goals..............................................................................................101-102 Implementation of Plan.....................................................................................................................103 Chapter III: West Branch Sunday Creek Subwatershed Description...............................................................................................................104 Water Quality Inventory ..................................................................................................................105 Subwatershed Impairments.............................................................................................................105 Restoration and Protection Goals.............................................................................................106-113
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