Nimishillen Creek Watershed

Nimishillen Creek Watershed - State Action Plan

January 26, 2007

FINAL REPORT

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UPDATE:

April 2, 2007- The Nimishillen Creek Watershed -State Action Plan has received FULL ENDORSEMENT from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency!! Click here to view the endorsement letter.

Northeast Ohio Four County Regional Planning and Development Organization (NEFCO), the Upper Tuscarawas River Watershed Coordinator, and the Nimishillen Creek Watershed Partners have worked with watershed stakeholders to revise and update the Nimishillen Creek Comprehensive Watershed Management Plans (CWMPs). An update was needed to:

Better guide local stakeholders in implementing water quality improvement efforts;
Incorporate new watershed information;
Consolidate the previous four CWMP Phases into a single document;
Satisfy new state endorsement requirements for watershed plans; and
Put the Nimishillen Creek Watershed in better position to compete for limited outside funding.

Below is the FINAL REPORT for the new Nimishillen Creek Watershed - State Action Plan. Thank you to everyone who assisted with the its completion. I am pleased to announce that the Action Plan was accepted by NEFCO's General Policy Board on June 21, 2006. The Action Plan will now be submitted to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for State endorsement review. The endorsement review by the State will take approximately one month to complete.

The Nimishillen Creek Watershed -State Action Plan was recently updated (January 26, 2007) to incorporate comments received during the evaluation by Ohio EPA and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) for State endorsement. Click here to view a summary of all 14 changes made to the plan.

Table of Contents (235 KB)

I. Introduction - Pages 1-4 (861 KB)

II. Watershed Inventory

- Part 1: Pages 5-16 (4.25 MB)

- Part 2: Pages 17-35 (5.12 MB)

- Part 3: Pages 36-62 (6.47 MB)

III. Water Resource Quality: Pages 63-75 (1.34 MB)

IV. Water Quality Issues: Pages 76-90 (1.66 MB)

V. Load Reduction: Page 91 (18 KB)

VI. Home Sewage Treatment System Plan: Pages 92-105 (4.45 MB)

VII. Subwatershed Action Plans

- East Branch: Pages 106-125 (1.16 MB)