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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05539335       SUGAR RUN AT MILLS ROAD AT JOLIET, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°30'09", long 88°04'41" (NAD of 1927), in SE¼ SW¼ NW¼ sec.22, T.35N., R.10E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 19 feet downstream of bridge at Mills Road.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 12.8 mi².

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Miscellaneous discharge measurements, water year 2000.

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.

 

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 19 feet downstream of Mills Road and continues downstream for 656 feet.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
7/20/2001
 

Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Catostomus commersoni white sucker 42
Cyprinidae
Campostoma anomalum central stoneroller 273
Luxilus chrysocephalus striped shiner 2
Nocomis biguttatus hornyhead chub 5
Notropis dorsalis bigmouth shiner 21
Pimephales notatus bluntnose minnow 53
Semotilus atromaculatus creek chub 78
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Lepomis cyanellus green sunfish 5
Percidae
Etheostoma flabellare fantail darter 1
Etheostoma nigrum johnny darter 17
Etheostoma spectabile orangethroat darter 44


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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data