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LOCATION.-- Lat 41°27'24", long 87°33'00" (NAD of 1927), at NW¼ NE¼ NW¼ sec.7, T34N, R10W, Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120003, 85 feet upstream from bridge at Old Post Road. |
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DRAINAGE AREA.-- 32.8 mi². |
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PERIOD OF RECORD.-- |
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SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE |
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PARTIAL RECORD: Miscellaneous discharge measurements, water year 2000. |
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SURFACE-WATER QUALITY |
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MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, water year 2000. |
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BIOLOGICAL |
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BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000. |
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FISH: Water year 2001. |
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HABITAT: Water year 2000. |
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REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Fish community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the upper Illinois River Basin. Collections were made with a single pass of the entire reach with a backpack electroshocker with supplementary seine hauls and kicks. Fishes were identified by C. A. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. Reach A begins at 85 feet upstream of Old Post Road and continues downstream for 591 feet. |
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FISH |
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| Clupeiformes | |||||
| Clupeidae | |||||
| Dorosoma cepedianum | gizzard shad | 2 | |||
| Cypriniformes | |||||
| Catostomidae | |||||
| Catostomus commersoni | white sucker | 66 | |||
| Cyprinidae | |||||
| Campostoma anomalum | central stoneroller | 14 | |||
| Cyprinus carpio | common carp | 5 | |||
| Luxilus cornutus | common shiner | 4 | |||
| Nocomis biguttatus | hornyhead chub | 9 | |||
| Notropis buccatus | silverjaw minnow | 2 | |||
| Notropis stramineus | sand shiner | 1 | |||
| Pimephales notatus | bluntnose minnow | 10 | |||
| Semotilus atromaculatus | creek chub | 44 | |||
| Perciformes | |||||
| Centrarchidae | |||||
| Lepomis cyanellus | green sunfish | 5 | |||
| Micropterus salmoides | largemouth bass | 1 | |||
| Percidae | |||||
| Etheostoma nigrum | johnny darter | 168 | |||
| Percina maculata | blackside darter | 4 | |||
| Salmoniformes | |||||
| Esocidae | |||||
| Esox americanus vermiculatus | grass pickerel | 2 | |||
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Table of Contents |
Introduction |
Station Descriptions |
Surface-Water Data |
Ground-Water Data |
Meteorological Data |
Biological Data |