Ohio Admin. Code 3745-1-23

Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 2, 2024

Section 3745-1-23 - Portage river drainage basin

(A) The water bodies listed in table 23-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Portage river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in this chapter is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

* Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards.

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency.

* Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency.

Table 23-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Portage river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment

Use Designations

Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat

Water Supply

Recreation

B W

Duck creek

Otter creek - headwaters to 0.2 miles downstream of E. Broadway (RM 7.0)

Small drainageway maintenance

- RM 7.0 to mouth

HELP ecoregion - channel modification

Driftmeyer ditch

Small drainageway maintenance

Amlosch ditch

Small drainageway maintenance

Wolf creek/Berger ditch

Cedar creek

Wolf creek/Williams ditch

Dry creek

Little Cedar creek

Crane creek

Ayers creek

Little Crane creek

Henry creek

Two Root creek

Turtle creek

North branch

South branch

Toussaint river

Rusha creek

HELP ecoregion - channel modification

Packer creek

Toussaint creek

Martin ditch

Unnamed tributary (Toussaint creek RM 32.1)

Lacarpe creek - headwaters to Tettau rd. (RM 2.6 )

Small drainageway maintenance

- Tettau rd. to the mouth

Portage river

Little Portage river

Ninemile creek

Lacarpe creek

Wolf creek

Sugar creek

Coon creek (Sugar creek RM 12.4)

North branch

Poe ditch

Small drainageway maintenance

Middle branch

Bull creek

Rocky ford - at RMs 10.66 and 11.10

PWS intakes - North Baltimore

- all other segments

Fenburg tributary 1 (Rocky ford RM 10.75)

Fenburg tributary 2 (Fenburg tributary 1 RM 1.99 )

Needles creek

Rader creek - at RM 13.57

PWS intake - McComb

- all other segments

South branch

East branch - at RMs 13.84 and 16.15

PWS intakes - Fostoria

- all other segments

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat;

CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water;

PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Appendix Figure 1. Portage river drainage basin.

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Ohio Admin. Code 3745-1-23

Effective: 4/21/2021