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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05528032       BULL CREEK BELOW MILWAUKEE AVE NR LIBERTYVILLE, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°18'52", long 87°57'44" (NAD of 1927), in SW¼ SW¼ SW¼ sec.4, T44N, R11E, Lake County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 26 feet upstream of side of bridge on abandoned road in forest preserve off Milwaukee Ave.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 7.77 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.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Habitat measurements, including physical and geomorphic, were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the upper Illinois River Basin. The measurements were collected according to Fitzpatrick and others (1998). Reach A begins 26 feet upstream of the abandoned road in the forest preserve and continues upstream for 492 feet.




Tabular-Text Files of Habitat Data for Water Year 2000

The following links list up to five tab-delimited text files containing habitat data collected at several sites. An explanation of column headers in these files can be accessed at this link.

Reach -- General description of the sampled reach.

Geomorphic Channel Unit (GCU) -- Fluvial geomorphic descriptors of channel shape and stream velocity (for example pool, riffle, or run).

Transect -- Channel and bank measurements made along transects (cross sections) within each reach.

Transect Points -- Channel and substrate measurements and observations at points along a transect (cross section).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data