DEC Monitored Creeks
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Location: Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, USA

Study Reach: 30 miles

Number of Creeks: 21

Number of Sites: 28

Structures Included: existing low drop structures, existing high drops, anticipated low drop sites, anticipated high drop sites, bendway weirs, Chevron dikes, bank stabilization, and control reaches

Monitored Creeks:

Abiaca Creek Hickahala Creek Long Creek Redbanks Creek
Beartail Creek Hotopha Creek Marcum Creek Sarter Creek
Coila Creek James Wolf Creek Nolehoe Creek Sykes Creek
Fannegusha Creek Lick Creek Otoucalofa Creek Williams Creek
Harland Creek Lee Creek Perry Creek Worsham Creek

These sites have been selected to represent many of the different DEC watersheds, types of channel planform and sediment gradation, particular causes of instability, types of channel rehabilitation, and locations of special interest.

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