This site relates to Watershed Management Framework activities in the basin unit that includes the watersheds of the Licking River and nearby Ohio River tributaries. In this basin unit, the Kentucky Division of Water provides one full-time basin coordinator.

Basin Coordinator - Each basin unit has a basin coordinator.  These work for either the Division of Water or partner organizations and are generally overseen and funded by the Division of Water.

The Licking River Region in Kentucky: Status and Trends This report covers the entire drainage area – or basin – of the Licking River and other streams north and east of the basin along the Ohio River. In this report, the entire area is referred to as the Licking River region.  (This is a PDF document.  You will need Acrobat Reader to view it.  Download Acrobat free.)

Basin Monitoring Plan:  2004-2005 Strategic Monitoring Plan Salt and Licking and Appendices A-D  - This planning document also provides a standard set of water quality parameters and sampling regimes that were designed around land-use/cover types to allow maximum utilization of programmatic resources and best characterization of water quality resources.

Priority Watersheds, 2001 - There are 69 "HUC-11" watersheds in the Licking River and nearby Ohio River tributaries. These were ranked using a diverse set of empirical and surrogate data to evaluate the condition of the basin unit.

Watershed Viewer - Links to a clickable basin map. More detailed information is revealed by "zooming" into the map (with the "magnifying glass"). "Identify HUC11" produces links, at the bottom of the map, to a table and narrative information about each subwatershed.

Watershed Plans

• Strodes Creek Watershed Action Plan - Watershed Plan for Strodes Creek.
• Licking River Headwaters Watershed Action Plan - Watershed Plan for the Licking River Headwaters.
• Banklick Watershed Plan - The Banklick Watershed is complex in terms of topography and human influence. It requires complex responses to issues. The Banklick Creek Watershed Council has funds to carry out the plan of action described herein. Part of this project is to prepare a comprehensive Watershed Action Plan.

Volunteer monitoring connection

• Water Watch - Volunteers protecting Kentucky waterways.
• Licking River Watershed Watch - The mission of the Licking River Watershed Watch is to promote citizen stewardship, activism, and education throughout the watersheds of the Licking River region. We do this through identifying problems; developing sustainable solutions; and protecting and restoring the natural systems so that the ecological, spiritual and economic integrity will be preserved for future generations.
• Licking River Watershed Watch 2006 sampling data spreadsheets are now available on the Licking River Watershed Watch Web site. 

Assessments

• List of impaired waters of Kentucky (303d List), 2004.

Other Links

• Licking Ledger - The April/May issue is now available.