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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05572000       SANGAMON RIVER AT MONTICELLO, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°01'51", long 88°35'20" (NAD of 1927), in NE1/4SW1/4 sec.12, T.18 N., R.5 E., Piatt County, Hydrologic Unit 07130006, on right downstream side of highway bridge, 0.5 mi west of Monticello, and at mile 162.2.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 550 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: February 1908 to December 1912, June 1914 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1308. Published as "near Monticello" 1910-12.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1990-92, 1997-98, and 2001 to current year.

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Contaminants in streambed sediments, July 1996; contaminants in fish tissue, July 1996; streambank sediment size, October 1997; streambed sediment size, October 1997.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water years 1996-98 and 2002-03.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water years 1996-98 and 2002.

 

FISH: Water years 1997-98 and 2002-04.

 

HABITAT: Water years 1996-98 and 2002-04.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 525: 1920. WSP 1115: 1946-47. WSP 1208: 1915-16, 1918-20, 1927, 1929, 1939. WSP 1508: 1908(M), 1917, 1928(M). WDR IL-81-2: 1909(P), 1912(P), 1915(P), 1919-32(P), 1935(P), 1937-38(P), 1940-41(P), 1944(P), 1946-47(P). WDR IL-89-2: 1988.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 625.89 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Sept. 30, 1964, nonrecording gage at site 0.2 mi downstream at same datum. Oct. 1, 1964, to Oct. 22, 1971, nonrecording gage at present site and datum.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 19,000 ft3/s, Oct. 4, 1926, gage height, 18.50 ft, from graph based on gage readings, site then in use; maximum gage height, 19.06 ft, Apr. 13, 1994, discharge, 15,900 ft3/s; no flow Aug. 28, Sept. 5, 11, 17, 18, Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1, 1988.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Fish community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the lower Illinois River Basin (Moulton and others, 2002). Collections were made with two passes with a barge electroshocker and supplementary seine hauls and kicks. Fishes were identified by C. A. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. Reach A begins 820 ft. upstream of the gage and continues upstream for 984 ft.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
8/17/2004
 

Clupeiformes
Clupeidae
Dorosoma cepedianum gizzard shad 6
Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Moxostoma erythrurum golden redhorse 6
Moxostoma macrolepidotum shorthead redhorse 3
Cyprinidae
Cyprinella sp. satinfin shiners 134
Cyprinus carpio common carp 1
Lythrurus umbratilis redfin shiner 1
Notemigonus crysoleucas golden shiner 1
Notropis stramineus sand shiner 7
Pimephales notatus bluntnose minnow 21
Pimephales vigilax bullhead minnow 1
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Lepomis cyanellus green sunfish 40
Lepomis macrochirus bluegill 54
Lepomis megalotis longear sunfish 45
Micropterus salmoides largemouth bass 10
Pomoxis annularis white crappie 1
Pomoxis nigromaculatus black crappie 2
Percidae
Etheostoma asprigene mud darter 4
Etheostoma flabellare fantail darter 1
Etheostoma nigrum johnny darter 2
Percina phoxocephala slenderhead darter 3
Percopsiformes
Aphredoderidae
Aphredoderus sayanus pirate perch 9
Salmoniformes
Esocidae
Esox americanus vermiculatus grass pickerel 3
Siluriformes
Ictaluridae
Ameiurus natalis yellow bullhead 5
Ictalurus punctatus channel catfish 1
Noturus flavus stonecat 1
Noturus nocturnus freckled madtom 3


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