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Licking and Ohio Tributaries

Licking Basin
Licking River Basin Coordinator - In this basin unit, the Kentucky Division of Water provides one full-time basin coordinator.

Lajuanda Haight-Maybriar
Division of Water
Morehead Regional Office
525 Hecks Plaza Drive
Morehead, KY  40351
Phone: 606-783-8655
E-mail: Lajuanda.Haight-Maybriar@ky.gov

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 - 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

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 sampling data spreadsheets are now available on the Licking River Watershed Watch Web site. 

Assessments

  • List of impaired waters of Kentucky (303d List) - Pursuant to Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, the state of Kentucky has developed a list of waterbodies presently not supporting designated uses as required by 40 CFR 130.7(b)(4) and needing Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development.  (PDF document)

Other Links

  • Licking Ledger - The latest issue of the Licking Ledger is now available, as well as archived past issues.
DEP Division of Water
200 Fair Oaks Lane
Fourth Floor
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-3410
Fax: 502-564-0111
E-mail: water@ky.gov