Fecal Coliform TMDL Implementation Plan for the High Island Creek and Rush River

Fecal Coliform TMDL Implementation Plan for the High Island Creek and Rush River

2009-07

The High Island Creek and Rush River watersheds are located in the Lower Minnesota Watershed, in south central Minnesota. The watersheds are located across 410,000 acres in portions of McLeod, Nicollet, Renville and Sibley Counties. High Island Creek and Rush River outlet into the Minnesota River near Henderson, Minnesota. As of the 2008 303(d) impaired waters list, five reaches of the High Island Creek and two reaches of the Rush River have been listed as impaired for fecal coliform bacteria. The Water Resources Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato received funding in 2005 to complete a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Assessment of fecal coliform bacteria impaired reaches in the High Island Creek and Rush River watersheds. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the TMDL assessment on November 14, 2008. The findings and load allocations from the fecal coliform TMDL assessment are summarized in Section 2 of this plan.

High Island Creek Watershed District
Rush River Watershed District

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (St. Paul, Minnesota)

64

Water Quality & Pollutants

High island creek
Buffalo creek
County ditch 59
Rush river
Minnesota river basin
Sibley county
Minnesota
Impaired waters
TMDL
Total maximum daily load
Implementation
Fecal coliform

Lower Minnesota River (07020012)

Scott
McLeod
Scott

2010-2019

No

Public Domain

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency