Sunday Creek

Infobox River
river_name = Sunday Creek

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caption = Sunday Creek in Glouster, Ohio in 2006
origin = coord|39|40|28|N|82|05|37|W|,cite web |url=Gnis3|1077000 |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Sunday Creek |accessdate=2007-01-08] Perry County, Ohio, approximately 5 mi (8 km) north of CorningDeLorme (1991). "Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.]
mouth = coord|39|23|32|N|82|07|24|W|, Hocking River at Chauncey, Ohio
basin_countries = United States
length = 27.2 mi (43.8 km)cite web |url= http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/streams/chapter10.pdf |title= Major Ohio Watersheds |accessdate=2007-01-08 |author= Ohio Department of Natural Resources |work= A Guide to Ohio Streams]
elevation = Approx. 800 ft (244 m)U.S. Geological Survey. Deavertown quadrangle, Ohio. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington D.C.: USGS, 1995.]
mouth_elevation = 640 ft (195 m)
discharge =
watershed = 139 mi² (360 km²) [cite web| title = Map of Ohio watersheds | url = http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/water/watersheds/Basins72PDI_40x40_OnScreen.gif|author = Ohio Department of Natural Resources |accessdate=2007-01-08]

Sunday Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River, 27.2 miles (43.8 km) long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Hocking and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining 139 square miles (360 km²) in a mainly rural area of the Allegheny Plateau region.Cite web| url=http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf |title=A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Sunday Creek Watershed |author=Sunday Creek Watershed Group| year=2003|month=March|pages = [http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf#page=11 p.11] |accessdate=2007-01-08] Its name is locally said to derive from early white settlers who in 1802 reached the creek on a Sunday, and so named it after the day of their discovery. [Cite web| url = http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf |title = A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Sunday Creek Watershed | author = Sunday Creek Watershed Group | year = 2003 | month = March | pages = [http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf#page=45 p.45] | accessdate=2007-01-08]

Sunday Creek rises in southeastern Perry County and flows generally southwardly into northern Athens County, passing through the communities of Rendville, Corning, Glouster, Trimble, Jacksonville, and Millfield (site of the 1930 Millfield Mine disaster), to Chauncey, where it flows into the Hocking River. In Athens County north of Glouster it collects the East Branch Sunday Creek, [cite web |url=Gnis3|1075764 |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for East Branch Sunday Creek |accessdate=2007-01-08] 15.5 miles (25 km) long, which rises in Perry County and passes through Morgan County. Tom Jenkins Dam, constructed on the East Branch in Athens County in 1950 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, forms Burr Oak Lake, the site of Burr Oak State Park. [Cite web | url = http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/tje/ | title = Tom Jenkins Dam | author = U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District | accessdate=2007-01-08] [Cite web | url = http://www.ohiodnr.com/parks/parks/burroak.htm | title = Burr Oak State Park | author = Ohio Department of Natural Resources | accessdate=2007-01-08] In Glouster, Sunday Creek collects the West Branch Sunday Creek, [cite web | url=Gnis3|1077166|title=Geographic Names Information System entry for West Branch Sunday Creek |accessdate=2007-01-08] 14 miles (22.5 km) long,, which rises in Perry County and flows generally southwardly.

A predominant land use in the watershed of Sunday Creek has historically been coal mining, with both underground and surface mines in the area. A 1997 study by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency identified the lowermost thirteen miles of Sunday Creek as having been "irretrievably damaged to the extent that no appreciable aquatic life can be supported" due to the creek's low pH, caused by acid mine drainage. [Cite web| url = http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf |title = A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Sunday Creek Watershed | author = Sunday Creek Watershed Group | year = 2003 | month = March | pages = [http://www.sundaycreek.org/images/sunday_mgmt032403.pdf#page=26 p.26] | accessdate=2007-01-08]

As of 2007, an organization called the Sunday Creek Watershed Group operates with the intention of addressing water quality and ecosystem-related matters in the watershed. It is sponsored by Rural Action, a non-profit organization in southeastern Ohio. [Cite web | url = http://www.sundaycreek.org/index.html | title = Sunday Creek Watershed Group website | accessdate=2007-01-08]

ee also

*List of Ohio rivers
*Monday Creek

References