Trout Creek, a tributary of the lower Clark Fork, is listed as a water quality limited waterbody. While not listed as a High priority for TMDL development, the priority for planning and restoration work on Trout Creek is related to its importance to the overall goal of improving and protecting beneficial wates uses in the lower Clark Fork river basin. Based on a watershed wide assessment, this 319 grant will fund restoration and habitat enhancement work, public education, monitoring, coordination/administration and development of a TMDL plan for the drainage. The goal of the project is to maintain, or where needed, to restore the chemical, biological and physical integrity of the water quality of the Trout Creek by reducing non-point pollution, to stabilize stream banks, improve stream habitat and riparian vegetation in order to restore native fish populations and to specifically improve water quality in order to remove Trout Creek from the Montana impaired stream list [303(d)].
