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LOCATION.-- Lat 41°31'04", long 87°55'39" (NAD of 1927), in SE¼ NE¼ SE¼ sec.14, T.35N., R.11E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120003, 157 feet upstream of School House Road Bridge. |
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DRAINAGE AREA.-- 49.13 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 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 157 feet upstream of School House Road and continues upstream for 787 feet. |
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FISH |
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| Reach A 7/18/2001 |
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| Atheriniformes | |||||
| Cyprinodontidae | |||||
| Fundulus notatus | blackstripe topminnow | 2 | |||
| Cypriniformes | |||||
| Cyprinidae | |||||
| Campostoma anomalum | central stoneroller | 9 | |||
| Luxilus chrysocephalus | striped shiner | 7 | |||
| Nocomis biguttatus | hornyhead chub | 5 | |||
| Notropis atherinoides | emerald shiner | 1 | |||
| Notropis rubellus | rosyface shiner | 13 | |||
| Notropis stramineus | sand shiner | 3 | |||
| Pimephales notatus | bluntnose minnow | 4 | |||
| Semotilus atromaculatus | creek chub | 2 | |||
| Perciformes | |||||
| Centrarchidae | |||||
| Ambloplites rupestris | rock bass | 1 | |||
| Lepomis cyanellus | green sunfish | 8 | |||
| Micropterus dolomieu | smallmouth bass | 2 | |||
| Percidae | |||||
| Etheostoma nigrum | johnny darter | 51 | |||
| Etheostoma spectabile | orangethroat darter | 4 | |||
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Table of Contents |
Introduction |
Station Descriptions |
Surface-Water Data |
Ground-Water Data |
Meteorological Data |
Biological Data |