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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05543500       ILLINOIS RIVER AT MARSEILLES, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°19'37", long 88°43'03" (NAD of 1927), in SE1/4SW1/4 sec.13, T.33 N., R.4 E., La Salle County, Hydrologic Unit 07120005, on right bank 0.5 mi downstream from Marseilles Dam in Marseilles, 6.9 mi upstream from Fox River, and at mile 246.5.
 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 8,259 mi2, does not include diversion from Lake Michigan through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which has occurred since Jan. 17, 1900.
 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE
 

DISCHARGE: October 1919 to current year. Prior to October 1939, published as "at Morris."
 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY
 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1975-96.
 

SEDIMENT: February 2003 to current year.
 

SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: Water years 1975-81.
 

WATER TEMPERATURE: Water years 1975-81.
 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water Year 1998; Contaminants in streambed sediments, October 1996; contaminants in fish tissue, October 1996; sediment concentration and particle size, water years 1993-97, 2003.

BIOLOGICAL
 

ALGAE: Water year 1989.
 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area.
 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, automatic water sampler, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter. Datum of gage is 452.91 ft above NGVD of 1929. October 1919 to January 1935, nonrecording gage at site at Morris, 16.6 mi upstream, at datum 25.59 ft higher. January 1935 to September 1939, water-stage recorder 300 ft downstream from Morris site at that datum. October 1939 to September 2002, water-stage recorder at current site at datum 10 ft. higher.
 

REMARKS.-- Figures of daily discharge include flow through navigation locks. Flow regulated by powerplants and navigation dam above station. Since Jan. 17, 1900, flow has included diversion from Lake Michigan through Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Suspended sediment samples were collected twice weekly with additionl samples during high-runoff periods by an automatic water sampler.
 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 95,000 ft3/s, Feb. 22, 1997, gage height, 26.85 ft, present datum; minimum daily discharge, 461 ft3/s, Nov. 21, 2002.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily, 307 mg/L, June 13, 2004; minimum daily, 6 mg/L, Jan. 28 - Feb. 6, 2004.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 42,100 tons, June 13, 2004; minimum daily, 37 tons, Feb. 4, 2004.
 

EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: A stage of 26.2 ft at Morris occurred in 1831, discharge not determined, and a stage of 35.4 ft (ice jam) occurred at present site and datum on Jan. 21, 1916, estimated discharge, 40,000 ft3/s.
 

EXTREMES FOR CURRENT YEAR.--

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily, 214 mg/L, May 12; minimum daily, 16 mg/L, Feb. 1 and Apr. 20.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 18,200 tons, May 12; minimum daily, 48 tons, Sept. 30.
SEDIMENT DISCHARGE, SUSPENDED (TONS/DAY), WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2002 TO SEPTEMBER 2003
MEAN MEAN MEAN
MEAN CONCEN- SEDIMENT MEAN CONCEN- SEDIMENT MEAN CONCEN- SEDIMENT
DISCHARGE TRATION DISCHARGE DISCHARGE TRATION DISCHARGE DISCHARGE TRATION DISCHARGE
DAY (CFS) (MG/L) (TONS/DAY) (CFS) (MG/L) (TONS/DAY) (CFS) (MG/L) (TONS/DAY)
 
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
1 2320 --- --- 2300 --- --- 2190 --- ---
2 4920 --- --- 2610 --- --- 2940 --- ---
3 3540 --- --- 2110 --- --- 3230 --- ---
4 5460 --- --- 2590 --- --- 2690 --- ---
5 5230 --- --- 2930 --- --- 2140 --- ---
 
6 5370 --- --- 2160 --- --- 2840 --- ---
7 4820 --- --- 2800 --- --- 2740 --- ---
8 3030 --- --- 1930 --- --- 3100 --- ---
9 3980 --- --- 3130 --- --- 2980 --- ---
10 2970 --- --- 2270 --- --- 1970 --- ---
 
11 3430 --- --- 2830 --- --- 3530 --- ---
12 3290 --- --- 2230 --- --- 2280 --- ---
13 3460 --- --- 3820 --- --- 3000 --- ---
14 2400 --- --- 2220 --- --- 2710 --- ---
15 2460 --- --- 3690 --- --- 2310 --- ---
 
16 3040 --- --- 2700 --- --- 3380 --- ---
17 2730 --- --- 3120 --- --- 2170 --- ---
18 3240 --- --- 3180 --- --- 6600 --- ---
19 2520 --- --- 2030 --- --- 7120 --- ---
20 3080 --- --- 2480 --- --- 6180 --- ---
 
21 1510 --- --- 461 --- --- 4990 --- ---
22 2980 --- --- 2840 --- --- 4190 --- ---
23 2700 --- --- 2830 --- --- 4970 --- ---
24 1820 --- --- 3230 --- --- 3800 --- ---
25 2920 --- --- 3120 --- --- 4220 --- ---
 
26 2410 --- --- 2910 --- --- 3140 --- ---
27 2940 --- --- 2840 --- --- 3010 --- ---
28 2250 --- --- 2750 --- --- 4070 --- ---
29 2860 --- --- 2890 --- --- 3600 --- ---
30 2040 --- --- 2360 --- --- 3080 --- ---
 
31 2100 --- --- --- --- --- 4900 --- ---
 
TOTAL 97820 --- --- 79361 --- --- 110070 --- ---
 
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH
1 2760 --- --- 3470 16 60 3600 24 225
2 3290 --- --- 3070 24 185 1860 24 106
3 4400 --- --- 2130 24 132 3300 24 186
4 4250 --- --- 3730 24 262 2760 24 170
5 3810 --- --- 3310 24 206 3260 24 218
 
6 3590 --- --- 3580 24 233 3150 24 188
7 3430 --- --- 2790 24 173 2760 24 155
8 3230 --- --- 3930 24 251 4830 24 281
9 4020 --- --- 2650 24 175 3230 24 183
10 2560 --- --- 3820 24 241 4390 24 273
 
11 3410 --- --- 2130 24 112 3590 24 205
12 2660 --- --- 3470 24 208 4450 24 308
13 2920 --- --- 2310 24 134 4860 24 307
14 2770 --- --- 3500 24 217 6610 24 406
15 3070 --- --- 1980 24 129 5540 24 339
 
16 2730 --- --- 3260 24 197 5200 24 329
17 2490 --- --- 2320 24 139 5410 24 323
18 2420 --- --- 1910 24 114 5090 25 334
19 2200 --- --- 3440 24 229 5480 31 450
20 2640 --- --- 2760 24 164 6040 37 564
 
21 2800 --- --- 1740 24 110 6360 43 688
22 1980 --- --- 3640 24 219 6950 46 851
23 2080 --- --- 1880 24 113 5310 41 608
24 3230 --- --- 3570 24 205 5350 36 512
25 2730 --- --- 2250 24 132 5720 30 455
 
26 2250 --- --- 3040 24 188 5410 26 380
27 2670 --- --- 2870 24 174 4970 25 336
28 2220 --- --- 2820 24 172 6120 24 374
29 2650 --- --- --- --- --- 5150 23 308
30 2810 --- --- --- --- --- 5410 21 307
 
31 1810 --- --- --- --- --- 5020 20 267
 
TOTAL 89880 --- --- 81370 --- 4874 147180 --- 10636
 
APRIL MAY JUNE
1 4200 19 199 14300 75 2880 10200 74 1960
2 4420 21 238 14300 89 3470 9190 64 1580
3 4460 24 294 14700 79 3070 9300 56 1370
4 8300 38 939 14200 72 2680 7420 52 1110
5 11800 62 1920 18100 61 2930 8540 49 1120
 
6 12500 70 2310 19000 64 3370 7950 46 986
7 11400 58 1760 18100 84 4070 6230 43 695
8 12000 47 1520 15400 76 3130 8050 40 792
9 11600 40 1220 23700 103 6650 6480 37 628
10 11000 36 1040 31300 138 11500 7000 35 634
 
11 10500 32 895 32400 173 15000 6350 35 583
12 8570 29 667 31800 214 18200 6780 35 618
13 8000 28 594 26600 147 10400 5790 35 545
14 8240 26 554 24100 92 5940 7160 38 708
15 6160 24 385 20900 79 4380 10300 50 1370
 
16 6340 22 359 20200 76 4110 10400 56 1540
17 5280 21 277 18800 73 3650 10000 53 1410
18 5550 19 280 15300 69 2730 10400 49 1320
19 6350 18 302 13900 67 2480 8880 45 1070
20 4260 16 169 13800 66 2420 6970 44 780
 
21 4760 17 213 11700 63 1900 7240 43 820
22 5360 19 270 10200 60 1600 5720 43 626
23 4430 21 256 9270 58 1430 6090 42 622
24 5420 22 323 8960 55 1260 5240 42 550
25 4970 24 306 8010 52 1090 4760 42 546
 
26 4570 25 297 7330 49 945 4090 42 574
27 4300 26 291 6370 47 777 4310 42 480
28 3890 28 278 7930 48 1030 4810 42 549
29 4250 30 308 7830 56 1170 4000 42 398
30 8070 42 940 9240 75 1870 5150 42 564
 
31 --- --- --- 9550 83 2090 --- --- ---
 
TOTAL 210950 --- 19404 497290 --- 128222 214800 --- 26548
 
JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER
1 3960 42 451 12300 33 1050 7250 25 468
2 3910 42 411 12600 30 980 6050 28 451
3 5180 45 573 14000 28 1050 7120 32 627
4 4060 49 471 14100 28 1060 7610 39 813
5 5720 53 769 13200 27 965 7360 36 700
 
6 8020 58 1180 11500 27 807 6620 28 471
7 12000 65 2090 11200 26 781 5120 27 353
8 15900 91 3910 10600 25 700 5670 32 465
9 19200 113 5880 9480 25 620 4310 36 407
10 25200 132 9010 8410 24 542 3840 35 336
 
11 29400 145 11600 7800 24 479 4220 32 327
12 29200 142 11200 8280 23 504 4630 30 377
13 28000 119 8970 6650 23 385 3580 28 245
14 26000 97 6750 7040 22 402 5820 27 404
15 29300 126 10100 5910 22 343 4390 27 307
 
16 32600 128 11200 5640 21 306 4860 26 335
17 29300 89 6980 6450 21 349 3760 26 231
18 34000 120 11000 5800 20 304 4370 25 273
19 36800 137 13600 4230 21 231 4270 25 235
20 32900 99 8700 5440 22 304 2730 25 173
 
21 29100 73 5780 4440 22 245 4820 24 280
22 32100 95 8100 4910 22 292 3420 24 221
23 29200 57 4450 4700 22 262 4440 24 258
24 24900 49 3320 4860 23 273 3750 23 223
25 20700 46 2530 4140 23 246 2480 23 142
 
26 16600 44 1890 3330 24 212 5030 22 281
27 16800 45 2040 5260 24 348 4700 22 275
28 22800 52 3210 3430 25 216 5950 22 310
29 18600 44 2230 4300 24 254 3850 21 220
30 14800 39 1540 4390 22 237 4090 21 48
 
31 13300 36 1260 4710 22 275 --- --- ---
 
TOTAL 649550 --- 161195 229100 --- 15022 146110 --- 10256


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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data