Reports

Duluth Area

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All Duluth Streams		Time Period	Data Available
	Geomorphic Responses of Duluth-Area Streams to the June 2012 Flood, Minnesota. Fitzpatrick, F.A., Ellison, C.A., Czuba, C.R., Young, B.M., McCool, M.M. and Groten, J.T. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2016-5104. [5.9 MB pdf file]	2012
	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 Restoration Project Axler, R., Brady, V., Gran, K., Host, G., Schomberg, J. NRRI Technical Report Number NRRI/TR-2014/43. [12 MB pdf file]	2014
	Amity Restoration Assessment: Water quality, fish, bugs, people. Axler, R., Brady, V. 2013. Lake Superior Coastal Program. [4.2 MB pdf file]	2013
	Restoring impaired Superior tributaries: stormwater BMP evaluation, education and outreach. 2011. 319 report to MPCA-Duluth. [2.3 MB pdf file]	July 2011
	Amity Creek Sediment and Erosion Reconnaissance. 2009. South St. Louis SWCD [138 KB pdf file]	2009
	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 Anderson, J., 2004, unpublished pilot project, MPCA-Duluth.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
Lester/Amity Watershed
	Amity Creek Restoration Project Axler, R., Brady, V., Gran, K., Host, G., Schomberg, J. NRRI Technical Report Number NRRI/TR-2014/43. [12 MB pdf file]	2014
	Amity Restoration Assessment: Water quality, fish, bugs, people. Axler, R., Brady, V. 2013. Lake Superior Coastal Program. [4.2 MB pdf file]	2013
	Restoring impaired Superior tributaries: stormwater BMP evaluation, education and outreach. 2011. 319 report to MPCA-Duluth. [2.3 MB pdf file]	July 2011
	Weber Stream Restoration Initiative Annual Update 2010 [839 KB pdf file]	June 2010
	Amity Creek Sediment and Erosion Reconnaissance [138 KB pdf file]	November 2009
	Weber Stream Construction Project Status 2008 [258 KB pdf file]	October 2008
	Weber Stream Restoration Initiative Annual Update 2008 [375 KB pdf file]	July 2008
	Weber Stream Restoration Initiative. Breneman, D. Lake Superior Angler, the magazine of the Lake Superior Steelhead Association. 2007 Fishing Annual edition. [1.5 MB pdf file]	2007
Miller Creek
	Miller Creek Watershed Map [103 KB pdf file]
	Miller Creek Water Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load. DRAFT. Tom Estabrooks, Evens, K., Johnson, G., Kubiak, K., Schroeder, N. 2017. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. [4.2 MB pdf file]	June 2017
	High-resolution maps of forest-urban watersheds present an opportunity for ecologists and managers. Kirk Stueve, Hollenhorst, T., Kelly, J., Johnson, L., Host, G. 2014. Landscape Ecology. [3.8 MB pdf file]	June 2014
	Restoring impaired Superior tributaries: stormwater BMP evaluation, education and outreach. 2011. 319 report to MPCA-Duluth. [2.3 MB pdf file]	July 2011
	Miller Creek Macroinvertebrate, Habitat, and Temperature Report. Brady, V. and D. Breneman. 2010. In support of the Miller Creek temperature TMDL study, June 2010. Prepared for the South Saint Louis Soil and Water Conservation District. Center for Water and the Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute University of Minnesota Duluth, MN 55811-1442. NRRI Technical Report Number NRRI/TR-2010/11. [1.2 MB pdf file]	May 2008
	Sediment Management Plan for Miller Creek and Coffee Creek. Prepared for the City of Duluth by Barr Engineering Company. [2.5 MB pdf file]	Dec. 2006
	Herb, W. R. and H. G. Stefan. 2009. Stream temperature modeling of Miller Creek, Duluth, MN. TMDL Report for Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN, October 2009. St. Anthony falls Hydraulics Laboratory Proj. Rep. 535, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [2.4 MB pdf file]
	Erickson, T.O., W.R. Herb, and H. G. Stefan. 2010. Streamflow modeling of Miller Creek, Duluth, MN. TMDL Report for Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN, October 2009. St. Anthony falls Hydraulics Laboratory Proj. Rep. 536, U. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [2.0 MB 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. [ Report -- 4.4 MB pdf file ] [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]

St. Louis Bay
	Impact of Western Lake Superior Sanitary District advanced wastewater treatment plant on water quality in St. Louis Bay. McCollor, S. MPCA. [0.4 MB pdf file]	1988	Turb., Conductivity, BOD, COD, Total Solids, TSS, Organic N, Total Ammonia, Nitrate-Nitrite, Kjeldahl Nitrogen, TP, Magnesium, Chlorides, Sulfates, Copper, Lead, Total Coliform, Fecal Coliform, Color, pH, Mercury...
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]