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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05536500       TINLEY CREEK NEAR PALOS PARK, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°38'48", long 87°45'59" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4SE1/4 sec.32, T.37 N., R.13 E., Cook County, Hydrologic Unit 07120003, on left bank at downstream side of bridge on 135th Street, 1.5 mi west of State Highway 50, 3 mi southeast of Palos Park, and at mile 1.8.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 11.2 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: July 1951 to current year. Prior to October 1952, records published with those for streams in the St. Lawrence River basin (WSP 1237).

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, water year 2000.

BIOLOGICAL

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

FISH: Water year 2001.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area. WDR IL-81-2: 1955(M), 1957(M), 1970(M), 1978(M).

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and phone telemeter. Datum of gage is 607.40 ft above NGVD of 1929.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 2,010 ft3/s, July 18, 1996, from rating curve extended above 800 ft3/s on basis of indirect measurement of flow through culvert, gage height, 10.25 ft; maximum gage height, 10.30 ft, discharge, 1,930 ft3/s, Oct. 10, 1954; no flow at times in most years.

 

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 barge or a backpack electroshocker with supplementary seine hauls and kicks. Fishes were identified by C. A. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. Reach A begins 666 feet downstream of 135th Street and continues downstream for 623 feet.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
7/18/2001
 

Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Catostomus commersoni white sucker 17
Cyprinidae
Campostoma anomalum central stoneroller 12
Pimephales notatus bluntnose minnow 30
Semotilus atromaculatus creek chub 62
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Lepomis cyanellus green sunfish 49
Lepomis macrochirus bluegill 7
Percidae
Etheostoma nigrum johnny darter 29
Siluriformes
Ictaluridae
Ameiurus melas black bullhead 1


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Introduction

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Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

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