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Water Resources of the Grant-Platte Basin
The Grant-Platte Basin includes:
- 81 named streams
- 1, 048 total stream miles (638 miles of named streams; 410 miles of smaller streams not named)
- 37 miles of exceptional resource waters (ERW), having excellent quality and valued fisheries
- 35 miles of ERW are composed of the Galena River and its small mouth bass fishery in Lafayette County
- 2 miles of ERW are composed of the Class I trout waters of Borah Creek in Grant County
- 70.3 miles of trout (COLD) water streams
- 382.9 miles of warm water sport fish (WWSF) community streams
- 169.9 miles of warm water forage fish (WWFF) community streams
Some of the traditionally good small mouth streams in the basin besides the Galena are the Little Platte and the Sinsinawa River. Numerous aquatic and terrestrial plant and animal species found on the state's endangered, threatened, or special concern list are found in the basin.
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