Monday Creek

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Monday Creek
Monday Creek near Nelsonville, Ohio

Monday Creek near Nelsonville, Ohio

Data
Water code US :  1076415
location southeastern state of Ohio, USA
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Hocking River  → Ohio River  → Mississippi River  → Gulf of Mexico
origin Approximately 2 miles north of Shawnee in Perry County, OH
39 ° 37 ′ 48 "  N , 82 ° 11 ′ 54"  W
Source height 301  m
muzzle Hocking River, 3 km southeast of Nelsonville, Athens County, OH Coordinates: 39 ° 25 ′ 1 "  N , 82 ° 11 ′ 34"  W 39 ° 25 ′ 1 "  N , 82 ° 11 ′ 34"  W
Mouth height 201  m
Height difference 100 m
Bottom slope 2.3 ‰
length 43.5 km
Catchment area 300 km²
Left tributaries Snow fork
Right tributaries Little Monday Creek

The Monday Creek is a 43.5 km long left tributary of the Hocking River in the southeastern US state of Ohio . The outflow is via the Hocking River, Ohio River and Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico . The Monday Creek is part of the river system of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 300 square kilometers. The river rises about three kilometers north of the village of Shawnee in southern Perry County and then flows south through the Hocking and Athens Counties and flows three kilometers southeast of Nelsonville into the Hocking River. The main tributaries of Monday Creek are the 14 miles long Little Monday Creek and the 10 miles long Snow Fork. 87% of the catchment area consists of forest, followed by arable land and pastures with five percent and wetlands with two percent, while around one percent is built on and five percent is used by opencast mining.

The Adena were the first known inhabitants of the region around 1000 BC. In the 18th century Indians from the tribe of Lenni Lenape , Shawnee and Wyandot lived here . The first white settlements emerged around 1774. According to legend, European immigrants named the river after the day of the week on which they discovered it. The Ohio Company acquired all of the land within the drainage basin in 1787 and 1792. Aggressive exploitation of natural resources , including coal, wood, salt, iron ore, and clay, from the mid-19th through the late 20th centuries left its mark . During the American Civil War , more iron was produced to supply the army of the north. More than 89% of Monday Creek's forest was cleared by 1889 and was not reforested until 1935 with the establishment of Wayne National Forest . Salt mining began in the 19th century, clay brick production peaked in the early 20th century, and oil and natural gas production began in 1909. The first coal mines were built around 1860 and closed in 1991. Open pit coal mining began after the Second World War and ended in the 1970s. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held coal mining in the Monday Creek catchment area primarily responsible for polluting the river as it released high levels of phosphorus . The agency found that Monday Creek was irretrievably altered to the extent that it was severely polluted by acid mine water to the point that no significant aquatic life could exist . The Monday Creek Restoration Project ( Monday Creek Restoration Project ) was founded in 1994 to improve the water quality in Monday Creek on a sustainable basis.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Google Earth altitude for GNIS coordinates, accessed on July 25, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c Monday Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed July 25, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Ohio Environmental Protection Agency  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 25, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.epa.ohio.gov  
  4. ↑ a b Monday Creek Restoration Project ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 25, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mondaycreek.org