Salt River Basin Coordinator - In this basin unit, one full-time basin coordinator is supported with funds from the Kentucky Division of Water.

Temporarily Vacant
Contact John Webb for more information
E-mail: john.webb@ky.gov

Focus Watershed Information - The focus watersheds are watersheds selected by the Watershed Steering Committee as areas for focused restoration and protection efforts and resources. 

• Background Information:  This link provides a summary of issues and information for this focus watershed.
  • Boiling Springs
• Updates and status reports:  The links below are summaries of reports provided to the Watershed Steering Committee on status and other information related to activities in the focus watersheds.
  • Boiling Springs

2004-2005 Strategic Monitoring Plan for Salt and Licking River Basins 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.

2001 Salt River Basin Assessment Report - Introduction and overview of the Salt River Basin and minor Ohio River tributaries watershed.

Basin Status Report: State of the River: A report on the condition of the Salt River watershed, Kentucky, and the minor Ohio River tributaries in the area (November 1998) - This is the basin status report for the Salt River and nearby MORTs in Kentucky.  The status report, published in November 1998, was produced as part of Kentucky's Watershed Management Framework.

Salt River Basin Management Plan - This document provides a watershed-by-watershed profile of the basin and documents the procedures and projects each program uses, but it also begins to provide geographic priority goals for the basin in greater detail.

Priority Watersheds, 2002 - Describes the rationale behind the Salt River Basin Team's selection of priority watersheds in the unit's first Watershed Management Framework cycle.

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.

Local Watershed Activities

• Sinking Creek Watershed Council - Council Meeting Minutes.
• Beargrass Creek Core Group - Action Plan Core Group Meeting Minutes.

Assessments

• Water Quality Report to Congress (Integrated Report or 305b Report) - This report was prepared by the Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) for submittal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fulfill requirements of Section 305(b) of the federal Water Pollution Control (or Clean Water) Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-500), as subsequently amended. Section 305(b) of the act requires states to assess and report current water quality conditions to EPA every two years.  (PDF document)
• List of impaired waters for 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)

Volunteer Monitoring Connection

• Salt River Watershed Watch - Volunteer organization focused on water quality monitoring and improvement efforts in the Salt River basin.
• Water Watch - Volunteers protecting Kentucky waterways.