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Location
- County: Marion, Mahaska
- Nearby communities: Leighton, Evans, Beacon, Oskaloosa, Eddyville, Pella
About the creek
Listed on Iowa's impaired waters list
Recreational uses: fishing
About the watershed
- Watershed size: 49,000 acres
- Watershed to lake ratio: 43 to 1
- Land use:
- Cropland: 66%
- Timber: 7%
- CRP: 6.3%
- Pasture: 4.5%
- Urban: 3.7%
- Mines: 3.5%
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Interesting fact: There are approximately 1,700 acres of abandoned coal mines in the
watershed. The district and DSC, Mines and Minerals are working to reclaim some of the sites.
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