Passing south of 11th Street it goes through the neighborhoods of Spring Garden to the west and Overtown to the east.

No longer a freshwater creek, it was instead used as a dumping ground for various types of chemicals, garbage, fecal matter and stormwater runoff from the surrounding area.

In 2003, the City of Miami submitted a maintenance dredging request on Wagner Creek upstream of NW 11th Street.

However, no further action was taken due to the Army Corps of Engineers dredging of the Miami River which took about five years.

Between 2007 and 2009, a company called CH2M HILL hired by the city conducted further tests determined that about 61 tons of contaminated sediments needed to be removed.