Water Quality – Shingle Creek

 

Shingle Creek Corridor Study

The Corridor Study was undertaken to provide a coordinated vision for the future of Shingle Creek and its tributaries, a capital improvement plan that outlines projects for the restoration of Shingle Creek, and a program of management activities.  The study encompassed all of Shingle Creek in Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park as well as Ryan Creek in Robbinsdale.

 

In 2005 the City of Brooklyn Park formally requested the Commission to draft a minor amendment to its Watershed Management Plan for the creek restoration project under design in that city.  The city has an ecological concept to restore the creek in the reach from Brooklyn Boulevard crossing west of Zane Avenue to the Hampshire Avenue footbridge.  With a low flow channel and native streambank plantings and remove the dam at Brooklyn Boulevard and replace it with rock vanes riffle/pool sequences.  Later, the City expanded the project to include the subreach of Hampshire to Candlewood Drive.  The study was approved by the Commission at its September 2005 meeting, where the Commission also adopted a resolution ordering the Shingle Creek Restoration Improvement project.  Construction began in 2006. 

 

 

Part 1. Executive Summary, Purpose & Methods, and Major Findings.

Part 2. Inventory and Stream Assessment

Part 3. Problems & Issues, Recommendations, Management Standards, and References

 

Appendix A. Stream Reach Detail

Part 1 Reaches 1 and 2                                                 

Part 2 Reaches 3 and 4

Part 3 Reaches 5 and 6                                                

Part 4 Reaches 7 and 8

Part 5 Reach 9                                                             

Part 6 Reach 10

 

 

Appendix B. Data Collection Forms

 

Appendix C. Figs. – Aerial Views of the Shingle Creek Corridor

 

Fig. 1. Reach 1 – 53rd to CR 10                                     

Fig. 2. Reach 2 – CR 10 to 61st

Fig. 3. Reach 2 – 61st to I-94/694                               

Fig. 4. Reach 3 – I-94 to 60th

Fig. 5. Reach 3 – 69th Ave to Palmer Lake                     

Fig. 6. Reach 4 – Palmer Lake

Fig. 7. Reach 4 – Palmer Lake to Xerxes            

Fig. 8. Reach 5 – Xerxes to Noble (Lower Reach)

Fig. 9. Reach 5 – Xerxes to Noble (Middle Reach)         

Fig. 10. Reach 5 – Xerxes to Noble (Upper Reach)

Fig. 11. Reach 5 – Noble to Brooklyn Blvd                      

Fig. 12. Reach 6 – Brooklyn Blvd to Regent

Fig. 13. Reach 6 – Regent to Unity                                

Fig. 14. Reach 6 – Unity to Zane

Fig. 15. Reach 6 – Zane to Brooklyn Blvd                       

Fig. 16. Reach 7 – Brooklyn Blvd to Hampshire

Fig. 17. Reach 7 – Hampshire to Candlewood                 

Fig. 18. Reach 6 – Candlewood to Broadway

Fig. 19. Reach 7 – Broadway to CSAH 81                      

Fig. 20. Reach 8 – CSAH 81 to Brooklyn Blvd

Fig. 21. Reach 8 – Brooklyn Blvd to 73rd                                   

Fig. 22. Reach 8 – 73rd to I-94/694

Fig. 23. Reach 9 – Ryan Outlet to Shingle Creek            

Fig. 24. Reach 9 – 49th to Ryan Lake

Fig. 25. Reach 10 – Ryan Lake                                       

Fig. 26. Reach 10 – Ryan Lake to France

Fig. 27. Reach 10 – France to Twin Lake

 

Creek Management Standards

Part 1              

Part 2

 

Implementation Plan