Piscasaw Creek
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Piscasaw Creek is a tributary river in Wisconsin and Illinois. Rising in Walworth County, it passes through McHenry County before discharging into the Kishwaukee River in Boone County. Piscasaw Creek's mouth is located near Belvidere, Illinois.
Piscasaw Creek is classified as a "Class A" drainage by the criteria established by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, signifying the small river's relative health with respect to waterborne nutrients and chemicals. The creek drainage includes Harvard, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Traditional dairy farming operations around Harvard have not overloaded the creek's biotic capacity. However, exponential residential development starting in the 2000s is expected to present new challenges to the creek.
The land around Piscasaw Creek is relatively flat and does not slope much. Much of the creek is bordered by strip of damp soil and wetland, with cattails and willow trees. The wetlands have helped to maintain water quality.
Piscasaw Creek contains populations of rock bass, smallmouth bass, bluegill, green sunfish, and rainbow trout. [1]
One stretch of land along Piscasaw Creek has been preserved for public use, Beck's Woods near Chemung, Illinois. It is owned and operated by the McHenry County Conservation District.
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- "Time To Choose: The Future of McHenry County's High Quality Streams" (2004: Sierra Club, Chicago, Ill.), posted as http://illinois.sierraclub.org/news/McHenryReport.pdf, accessed 2/10/07.
