LakeSuperiorStreams - reports

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North Shore

Duluth Area

St Louis River / Duluth-Superior Harbor

South Shore

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All Duluth Streams		Time Period	Data Available
	Geomorphic Characteristics and Classification of Duluth-Area Streams, Minnesota. Fitzpatrick, F.A., Peppler,M.C., DePhilip, M.M. and Lee, K.E.. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5029. This includes > 20 streams including, from West to East: Mission Creek, Sargent Creek, U.S. Steel Creek, Morgan Park, Stewart Creek, Lenroot Creek, Knowlton Creek, Kingsbury Creek, 62nd Avenue Creek, Keene Creek, Merritt Creek, Miller Creek, Buckingham Creek, Coffee Creek, Brewery Creek, Greys Creek, Chester Creek, Tischer Creek, 34th to 50th Ave. Creeks, Amity Creek, Lester River. [ 7.2 MB pdf file ]	2003-2004
	Duluth Metropolitan Area Streams Snowmelt Runoff Study. J. Anderson, T. Estabrooks and J. McDonnell, March 2000, Duluth Regional Office. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN 55155. [Web page]
Amity, Keene, Kingsbury, Miller Creeks
	Duluth Metropolitan Area Streams Snowmelt Runoff Study. Anderson, J., Estabrooks, T., McDonnell, J. March 2000. MPCA. [1.0 MB pdf file]	1999
Amity Creek
	Amity Creek Geomorphology Survey, August 2004. Anderson, J., 2004, unpublished pilot project, MPCA-Duluth. [ Report -- 1.2 MB pdf file ] [ Data Spreadsheet -- 1.1 MB Excel file ]	2004
Keene Creek
	Grassy Point, Duluth Harbor in Lake Superior Ecosystem Minnesota DNR. [Web page]	1995 - Present
Kingsbury Creek
	Kingsbury Creek Erosion Project Great Lakes Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Great Lakes Comission. [Web page]	October 1993 - October 1996
Miller Creek
	Miller Creek Watershed Map [103 KB pdf file]
	Miller Creek Diagnostic Study and Implementation Plan Clean Water Partnership Phase I Report, South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District, August 2001. [2.41 MB pdf file] [SSLSWCD web page]	1996 -1998	temperature, chloride, TSS, flow, conductivity, macroinvertebrates, fish, habitat
	Miller Creek Watershed Project Minnesota DNR. [Web page]	1994 - Present
	Miller Creek Watershed Wetland Functional Analysis South St. Louis Soil & Water Conservation District. [157 KB pdf file]
	Miller Creek Stormwater Modeling Project The Lake Superior Decision Support Project, University of MN Duluth, Natural Resources Research Institute. [Web page]
	Flash Flood interactive development scenarios -- a prototype utility that provides interactive simulations of the transport of water, suspended sediments and total phosphorus at 6 stations in Miller Creek spanning most of the stream course. [Web page]

Cloquet Area
	Assessing Wetlands using Ecological Indicators -Stream and Small River Floodplain Wetlands S. Galatowitsch et al. 1997, U. of Minnesota Department of Horticultural Science. [Website] Otter Creek in Carlton County is one of the streams surveyed. Report includes Site Record for Stream & Small River Floodplain Wetlands with mapped land use information; find at: http://horticulture.coafes.umn.edu/vd/mnwet/2_11sr.htm (OO) and http://horticulture.coafes.umn.edu/vd/mnwet/2_12sr.htm (OT). Also data on biological surveys conducted in Otter Creek (sample sites OO, OT) can be found at: http://horticulture.coafes.umn.edu/vd/mnwet/series2b.htm
	Lake Superior Watershed Assessment (MPCA 2004) identifies and discusses water quality issues of major and minor watersheds draining into Lake Superior. [Website] Simian and Otter Creek are noted in several tables in Chapter 7. [8.2 MB pdf file]