A Water Quality Snapshot for 640,00 Acres

Five organizations head out on the seconday Tuesday of each month to collect water quality data from 30 locations in the Upper Iowa River Watershed. The data can be used to compare one tributary to the next based on characteristics such as temperature, water clarity, bacteria counts, and nitrate concentrations.

Counties

Mower

Howard

Fillmore

Allamakee

Winneshiek

Sampling Organizations

Northeast Iowa RC&D

DNR ~ Guttenberg Hatchery

DNR ~ Decorah Hatchery

Fillmore County SWCD

Decorah Water Dept.

From the Mouth of the River Upstream

  • Upper Iowa River at Mouth
  • Upper Iowa River at Freeport
  • Pine Creek
  • Casey Springs
  • Ten Mile
  • Dry Run
  • Thomas Roberts Pond
  • Decorah Dry Run
  • Trout Run
  • Siewers Spring
  • Upper Iowa River at Bluffton
  • N. Branch of the Upper Iowa
  • Little Iowa
  • Staff Creek
  • Beaver Creek, MN
  • Beaver Creek, IA
  • Unnamed Stream, Minnesota
  • Bigalk Creek
  • Silver Creek West
  • Coldwater Creek
  • Trout River
  • Coon Creek
  • Coon Creek
  • Canoe Creek
  • Patterson Creek
  • Pine Creek East
  • Bear Creek
  • South Bear
  • North Bear
  • Waterloo Creek
  • Silver Creek East
  • Clear Creek
  • French Creek