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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05580950       SUGAR CREEK NEAR BLOOMINGTON, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°28'16", long 89°01'48" (NAD of 1927), in NE1/4NW1/4 sec.7, T.23 N., R.2 E., McLean County, Hydrologic Unit 07130009, on left bank at Bloomington-Normal Sanitary District sewage-treatment plant, 250 ft upstream from bridge on Interstate 74, 0.4 mi west of Bloomington, and at mile 48.8.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 34.4 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1974 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-82-2: Drainage area. WDR IL-87-2: 1985.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 725.11 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Nov. 4, 1987, 200 ft upstream at same datum.

 

REMARKS.-- Sewage-treatment plant effluent 300 ft upstream contains publicly supplied water from Lake Bloomington and Lake Evergreen and ground-water sources.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 6,600 ft3/s, Dec. 3, 1982, gage height, 14.02 ft, from floodmark; minimum daily, 9.0 ft3/s, Dec. 25, 1976.




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