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MILLER CREEK

Stream Data

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Issues

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TMDL Study
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Other Superior TMDLs
- Amity (pre-TMDL)
- Knife (exit)
- Poplar

History

FlashFlood interactive development scenarios

Miller Creek TMDL

A Creek Under Stress

Miller Creek is on the State & Federal Impaired Waters List and suffers from rising temperatures, high sediment and turbidity levels, elevated levels of chlorides (from road salt), and elevated levels of mercury in fish tissue. Since 1998 when a Joint Powers Agreement was signed between Duluth and Hermantown (expired in 2005) and the Miller Creek Task Force was formed, a number of studies have investigated the causes for these problems and there has been considerable volunteer and agency work to try and prevent further degradation although intense development continues in the upper watershed. A TMDL study began in early 2007 and is now in its final stages of review (Summer 2011). The next phase of the project will be to develop an Implementation Plan to begin to "fix" the identified problems.

Find out more:

The Miller Mail Summer 2009 newsletter includes updates on the Miller Creek TMDL plan.

Miller Creek Total Maximum Daily Load

Frequently Asked Questions

See the Understanding Impairments and TMDLs page in our Water Quality Impacts section.

Stream reports

Analysis of Flow Data from Miller Creek, Duluth, MN
Project Report No. 522, U of MN St. Anthony Falls Laboratory,
prepared for MPCA, September 2009.
Streamflow Modeling of Miller Creek, Duluth, Minnesota
Duluth, MN Project Report 536, U of MN St. Anthony Falls Laboratory,
prepared for MPCA, January 2010.
Miller Creek Macroinvertebrate, Habitat, and Temperature Report
NRRI Technical Report Number NRRI/TR-2010/11
U of MN Natural Resources Research Institute,
prepared for SSL SWCD, June 2010.

Miller Creek Total Maximum Daily Load

South St. Louis County SWCD

Urban Trout in Trouble

MPCA

Miller Creek Creek News

Regional Stormwater Protection Team