Information on Mill Stream

The Mill Stream watershed is just over 2000 acres. The watershed is a diverse mixture of agricultural land, large-lot residential, forest, and woodland and grassland. Much of the upper watershed includes small depressions that may only hold water on a seasonal basis. Unless very wet conditions prevail, most of the water within these depressions either infiltrates into the ground or is lost to evapotranspiration. Within the lower-most portion of this reach, DNR Parks has restored wetland communities and approximately 1000 feet of tributary channel that historically flowed to Mill Stream from the numerous springs within this reach.