Salt Creek is a

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in the southern part of the

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. A

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of the East Fork of the White River, the creek begins in southwestern Bartholomew County, flows through southern parts of

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and Monroe counties, and meets the White River just downstream from

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in Lawrence County. In far southwestern Brown County and much of southern Monroe County, the creek flows through

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, which was created by damming the creek in 1965. A major tributary of Salt Creek is Clear Creek, which drains most of the city of Bloomington. Besides the street runoff from Bloomington, Clear Creek also brings with it the

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from the city's Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant. Salt Creek, according to data collected from the years 1956–2001 at the USGS station at

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, has a mean annual discharge of 495 cubic feet per second. Salt Creek was so named on account of the many

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s along its course.

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Rivers of Bartholomew County, Indiana Rivers of Brown County, Indiana Rivers of Lawrence County, Indiana Rivers of Monroe County, Indiana Rivers of Indiana {{Indiana-river-stub

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