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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05549000       BOONE CREEK NEAR MC HENRY, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°19'15", long 88°18'45" (NAD of 1927), in NW1/4SW1/4 sec.4, T.44 N., R.8 E., McHenry County, Hydrologic Unit 07120006, on left bank at upstream side of bridge on Bull Valley Road, 2.5 mi southwest of McHenry and at mile 4.8.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 15.5 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: July 1948 to October 1982.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, water year 2000.

BIOLOGICAL

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area. WDR IL-79-2: 1970.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and concrete control. Datum of gage is 769.56 ft above NGVD of 1929.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 276 ft3/s June 2, 1970, gage height. 4.87 ft; minimum, 1.6 ft3/s Dec. 25, 1948, gage height, 0.30 ft, result of freezeup.

 

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 40 feet downstream of Bull Valley Road and continues downstream for 525 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.

Channel features -- Measurements of bars, shelves, and islands at each transect (cross section).

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