Gunpowder Creek

I live near this creek, as far as water quality goes, I,ve seen decent sized fish and my kids have caught the biggest crawdads I,ve seen out of it. I practice rolls in here all the time and play on the little wave about 100 yards from my house and have not had any ill effects from being in the water.
My mother in law has talked to a guy at KY division of water about this creek he said the poop and jet fuel problem had been addressed. She had concerns about the kids playing in it.

small feature on Gunpowder at around 625 cfs

We ran this 8-4-09 at 1000 cfs (droping 200cfs per hr) At this level it was a fun run with swift moving water most of the way. It could be paddled up to 1500+cfs no problem. The largest waves were 2ft high and no danger but you will need some boat control. There were some large strainers about 1.5 miles into the run. There were previous post about poor water quality but that was not the case. The creek was very muddy from all the runoff but clean and not smelly at all.
Time 2009-08-05 03:56:00 GMT

We ran this 8-4-09 at 1000 cfs (droping 200cfs per hr) At this level it was a fun run with swift moving water most of the way. It could be paddled up to 1500+cfs no problem. The largest waves were 2ft high and no danger with a bit of boat control. There were some large strainers about 1.5 miles into the run. There were previous post about poor water quality but that was not the case. The creek was very muddy from all the runoff but clean and not smelly at all.

David'dagger'Schack - Spring flooding has changed the streambed of the mighty GUNPOWDER. At approx. mile 2.5 one will encounter a delightful class -III wave/hole that offers great surfing all the way down to 200 cfs. Ran it once at 175 and dropping and still pulled some sweet spins and whatnot. Oh yeah, keep those eyes and mouth shut,unless u like the taste of poop/jet fuel(thanks to the wonderful greater cinn. airport)