Comments on the PRP were received from the Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division in October 1998. Responses to comments are currently being prepared. The PRP was completed February 28, 1999.
Paint Creek is a tributary of the Mississippi River in extreme northeastern Iowa.
The creek drains into the Mississippi River in the upper end of pool 10, near river mile 641, about 6 miles upstream of Marquette, Iowa, and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Alternatives to specific means of stabilizing the river corridor and reducing sedimentation on various reaches of the creek will be considered in later work. Paint Creek has experienced excessive bank erosion in recent years. This may result from factors such as a greater shift to row crops in the watershed, increased storm water runoff from the city of Waukon, Iowa, and past stream straightening and dike construction work. Since the watershed is predominantly hilly, with minimal topsoil depths overlying the limestone bedrock, the ecosystem is very fragile, both from an economic farming aspect and as viewed from a stable environmental setting.