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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05525000       IROQUOIS RIVER AT IROQUOIS, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°49'22", long 87°34'53" (NAD of 1927), in NE1/4SE1/4 sec.15, T.27 N., R.11 W., Iroquois County, Hydrologic Unit 07120002, on left bank at upstream side of bridge on U.S. Highway 52 in Iroquois, 500 ft upstream from a railroad bridge, 4.5 mi downstream from Indiana-Illinois State line, and at mile 50.4.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 686 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1944 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1978-91. Additional chemical data for water years 1972-77 are published in Water-Resources Investigations 78-23 and 79-24 as site FL 04.

 

SEDIMENT: October 1978 to September 1980, January 1993 to December 1995.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 614.34 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Aug. 5, 1945, nonrecording gage at same site and datum.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 10,400 ft3/s, June 13, 1958, gage height, 26.31 ft; minimum, 5.2 ft3/s, Sept. 13, 1964.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily, 2,280 mg/L, June 2, 1980; minimum daily, 3 mg/L, Dec. 23, 24, 27-31, 1978.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 12,200 tons, June 3, 1980; minimum daily, 0.45 ton, Dec. 28, 1978.




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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data