Sunday Creek

The Sunday Creek at Glouster, Ohio

The Sunday Creek is a 43.8 km long left tributary of the Hocking River in the southeastern U.S. state of Ohio. The outflow is via the Hocking River, Ohio River and Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. According to the legend named European immigrants the river after the week on which they discovered him. The Sunday Creek is part of the river system of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 360 km ². The river originates approximately 8 km north of the town of Corning in Perry County, flows generally in a southerly direction to the northern Athens County and flows Chauncy in the Hocking River. The main tributaries are of the 25 km long East Branch Sunday Creek and the 22.5 km long West Branch Sunday Creek. The East Fork Sunday Creek was dammed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1950 Burr Oak Burr Oak Lake and State Park furnished.

The intensive coal mining in the catchment area of the Sunday River led to irreparable damage to the environment. The first coal mines built around 1860 and was decommissioned in 1991. The coal mining began after the Second World War and ended in the 1970s. Coal production in the catchment area of the Monday Creek was approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) (Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ) made ​​primarily responsible for the pollution of the river, as they freely set a high proportion of phosphorus. The Authority noted that the Sunday Creek has been irretrievably altered to the extent that no appreciable life can exist in the water due to the significant pollution from acid mine drainage. The Sunday Creek Watershed Group was founded in 2004 to improve the water quality in the Sunday Creek sustainable.