Sailor Creek Flowage, Upper South Fork Flambeau River Watershed (UC10)
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Sailor Creek Flowage (2252200)
215 Acres
Natural Community
Reservoir
Year Last Monitored
2017
Good
 
Price
Trout Water 
No
Outstanding or Exceptional 
No
Impaired Water 
No

Fish and Aquatic Life

Current Use
Reservoir
Attainable Use
Default FAL
Designated Use
Default FAL

Overview

Sailor Creek Flowage, in the Upper South Fork Flambeau River Watershed, is a 201.26 acre impoundment that falls in Price County. This impoundment is managed for fishing and swimming and is currently considered impaired.

Date  2011

Author   Aquatic Biologist

Historical Description

Source: 1983, Surface Water Resources of Price County,WI: WI-DNR Sailor Creek Flowage - T39N, RIE, Sec. 19, 20, 29, 30.

Sailor Creek Flowage is a soft water, drainage impoundment on Sailor Creek. It has an 8-ft head control structure on the outlet with an estimated flow of 11.5 ft(3)/sec. The flowage is long and irregularly shaped with six wooded islands and several marsh and bog islands. It receives flow not only from Sailor Creek, but also from Coolidge and Hesher Creeks (both trout water entering from the south, and one unnamed minnow stream from Sweeney Lake to the north. The flowage has a fish population of muskellunge, pike, perch, largemouth bass, black crappies, rock bass, pumpkinseeds, black bullheads, white suckers, redhorse and minnows. The flowage shoreline is 75% upland hardwood and pine and the remaining 25% is cattail-tag alder-willow swamp. The littoral bottom is a mixture of sand, gravel, boulders, muck and detritus. Mallards, teal and wood ducks nest here each year, and other ducks and a few geese use the flowage during their spring and fall migrations. Sailor Creek Flowage also has muskrats and beaver. Private development consists of one resort, one boat rental and three cottages or homes. The Town of Fifield owns 0.27 mile of shoreline and provides a public access at the dam site. In addition, there is a platted access on the northeast side and a town road right-of-way access on the extreme

Surface area = 214.6 acres, maximum depth = 8 ft, MPA ppm, Secchi disk = 3 ft.

Date  1983

Author   Surface Water Inventory Of Wisconsin

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