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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05533400       SAWMILL CREEK NEAR LEMONT, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°42'28", long 87°57'47" (NAD of 1927), in NE1/4SW1/4 sec.10, T.37 N., R.11 E., Du Page County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, on concrete abutment on right bank, 50 ft upstream from bridge on Bluff Road at south edge of Argonne National Laboratory, 2.5 mi northeast of Lemont, and at mile 1.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 13.0 mi2

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: December 1985 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1961-79.

PRECIPITATION: April 1986 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

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

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Pigment and biomass, Water year 2000.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

FISH: Water year 2001.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-77-1: 1961-76(M).

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, unheated tipping-bucket rain gage, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 630.00 ft above NGVD of 1929. Oct. 11, 1961, to Sept. 30, 1976, crest-stage gage on bridge 50 ft downstream at datum 11.22 ft higher.

 

REMARKS.-- For precipitation records, snowfall-affected data can result during cold weather when snow fills the rain-gage funnel and then melts as temperatures rise. Snowfall-affected data are subject to appreciable errors.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 3,070 ft3/s, July 18,1996, gage height, 17.53 ft; no flow at times in most years.

PRECIPITATION: Maximum daily total, 6.17 in., July 17, 1996.

 

EXTREMES FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Maximum daily total, 2.37 in., August 28.



PRECIPITATION, TOTAL, IN INCHES, WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2003 TO SEPTEMBER 2004
DAILY SUM VALUES
DAY OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
1 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 s0.01 0.38 0.00 0.05 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00
2 0.00 1.19 0.00 0.00 s0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00
3 0.24 0.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.51 0.99 0.00
4 0.00 1.26 0.31 0.00 s0.02 1.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.00
5 0.00 0.00 0.47 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.48 0.00 0.00
6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.73 0.00 0.03
7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.10 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00
8 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
9 0.00 0.00 0.45 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.20 0.04 0.37 0.00 0.00
10 0.00 0.00 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.18 1.76 0.02 0.00 0.00
11 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.26 s0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.41 0.00 0.00 0.00
12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.63 0.53 0.00 0.00 0.00
13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 1.13 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00
14 0.97 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.86 0.60 0.00 0.00 0.00
15 0.00 0.03 s0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.56
16 0.01 0.10 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
17 0.00 0.54 0.00 0.00 s0.03 0.13 0.07 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.56 0.00
18 0.00 1.44 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.19 0.00 0.55 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.00
19 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.27 0.02 0.93 0.11 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00
21 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.58 0.42 1.23 0.00 0.00
22 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.31 0.00 0.07 0.00 0.00
23 0.00 0.91 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
24 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.43 0.61 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.89 0.00
25 0.52 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.02 0.15 0.00 0.00 0.40 0.00
26 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.27 0.00
27 0.01 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.18 0.00
28 0.07 0.00 0.21 0.00 0.00 1.09 0.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 2.37 0.00
29 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.00 0.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00
30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -- 0.04 0.28 1.88 0.00 0.22 0.00 0.00
31 0.00 -- 0.00 0.00 -- 0.00 -- 0.45 -- 0.00 0.00 --

TOTAL 1.97 6.28 2.07 0.31 0.70 4.44 2.04 7.46 4.19 3.69 7.11 0.59

s Snowfall-affected precipitation


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