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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05550500       POPLAR CREEK AT ELGIN, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°01'34", long 88°15'20" (NAD of 1927), in SE1/4NW1/4 sec.19, T.41 N., R.9 E., Cook County, Hydrologic Unit 07120006, on right bank 35 ft upstream from bridge on U.S. Highway B.R. 20 (Villa Street) in Elgin, and at mile 2.3.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 35.2 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: August 1951 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1977-91.

 

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.-- WSP 1338: 1952-53. WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and phone telemeter. Datum of gage is 716.00 ft above NGVD of 1929.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 1,180 ft3/s, Feb. 21, 1997, gage height, 6.78 ft; no flow, July 10, 1957, Sept. 14, 1958, July 18, 1989, Oct. 6, 1997.

 

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 68 feet upstream of Villa Creek Bridge and continues upstream for 492 feet.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
7/12/2001
 

Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Catostomus commersoni white sucker 4
Hypentelium nigricans northern hog sucker 1
Cyprinidae
Campostoma anomalum central stoneroller 9
Luxilus cornutus common shiner 10
Nocomis biguttatus hornyhead chub 13
Pimephales notatus bluntnose minnow 13
Semotilus atromaculatus creek chub 5
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Lepomis cyanellus green sunfish 15
Lepomis macrochirus bluegill 6
Micropterus dolomieu smallmouth bass 2
Percidae
Etheostoma flabellare fantail darter 18
Etheostoma nigrum johnny darter 1


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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data