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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05527800       DES PLAINES RIVER AT RUSSELL, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°29'21", long 87°55'35" (NAD of 1927), in SE1/4 sec.3, T.46 N., R.11 E., Lake County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, on right bank at upstream side of Russell Road bridge, 0.3 mi west of Russell, 7.2 mi upstream from Mill Creek, and at mile 109.3.
 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 123 mi2.
 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE
 

DISCHARGE: July 1967 to current year.
 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.
 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1960 to 1966. Occasional low-flow measurements, water years 1961-63, and annual maximum, water years 1960-67.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY
 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1978-1991 and 1999 to 2001. Additional chemical data for water years 1959-60, 1964-69, 1971-77 are published in Water-Resources Investigations 78-22 and 79-23 as site G 08.
 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water years 1999-2000; contaminants in streambed sediment, Water years 1998 and 2000; contaminants in fish tissue, Water year 1998.

PRECIPITATION: October 1999 to current year.

BIOLOGICAL
 

ALGAE: Water years 1999-2001.
 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water years 1999-2001.
 

FISH: Water years 1999-2001.
 

HABITAT: Water years 1999-2001.
 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area. WDR IL-76-1: 1960-68(M), 1973(M).
 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, raingage, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 662.00 ft above NGVD of 1929 (661.74 ft NAVD 1988). Oct. 17, 1961 to June 29, 1967, crest-stage gage at left downstream side of bridge at datum 4.29 ft higher.
 

REMARKS.-- Collection, computation, and publication of precipitation data do not necessarily conform to standards used by the National Weather Service. Precipitation data could be subject to error for days with freezing and/or thawing of precipitation.
 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 3,500 ft3/s, May 23, 2004, gage height, 11.09 ft, no flow, at times in most years.

PRECIPITATION: Maximum daily total, 3.55 in., June 12, 2000.
 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.-- Records good except those for estimated discharges, which are poor.
Discharge, cubic feet per second, WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2004 TO SEPTEMBER 2005
DAILY MEAN VALUES
DAY OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
 
1 0.10 9.9 50    6.0 e38  128  108  29  9.0   1.1   0.43 0.01
2 0.24 34    51    12    36  129  117  27  7.9   1.0   0.17 0.00
3 0.57 41    45    21    34  108  142  25  6.7   0.86 0.08 0.00
4 0.78 34    40    27    37  99  165  23  6.6   0.78 0.01 0.00
5 0.84 32    36    e27    44  100  174  21  12      0.74 0.00 0.00
 
6 0.93 26    42    e24    62  125  174  18  24      0.62 0.00 0.00
7 1.0   21    85    e20    124  199  168  17  26      0.64 0.00 0.00
8 1.5   15    161    e18    203  249  157  16  19      0.69 0.00 0.00
9 1.6   12    170    e17    240  265  147  16  11      0.60 0.00 0.00
10 2.5   11    165    e16    255  256  134  20  8.7   0.48 0.00 0.00
 
11 2.6   8.7 152    17    253  236  118  28  8.0   0.36 0.00 0.00
12 2.3   7.9 132    29    237  208  103  49  9.6   0.29 0.00 0.00
13 1.8   7.3 102    204    229  172  89  65  8.6   0.23 3.4   0.00
14 1.2   8.0 75    283    328  136  79  75  7.3   0.16 5.2   0.00
15 1.3   9.0 61    280    458  109  70  61  8.2   0.11 3.9   0.00
 
16 2.5   10    38    262    609  94  63  48  6.7   0.08 2.7   0.00
17 4.2   11    31    234    631  91  57  38  6.3   0.03 1.8   0.00
18 2.7   12    19    197    545  92  54  31  5.0   0.00 1.7   0.00
19 2.3   16    e16    150    427  102  51  37  4.3   0.00 1.8   0.00
20 2.2   31    e12    107    356  129  54  60  3.4   0.00 8.3   0.00
 
21 2.0   33    11    82    310  154  57  68  2.5   0.25 25      0.00
22 1.5   28    7.8 e72    271  160  58  61  1.6   2.3   17      0.19
23 4.9   24    5.7 e66    241  155  61  50  1.3   2.3   7.7   11     
24 16      19    4.0 e63    205  148  60  40  1.1   2.5   3.7   13     
25 9.6   20    3.0 61    173  140  56  32  0.78 2.3   1.9   5.7  
 
26 5.6   33    2.7 59    150  131  50  26  0.69 2.9   0.98 7.1  
27 4.6   33    2.6 56    126  124  47  20  0.81 2.8   0.59 12     
28 4.6   44    2.7 50    120  117  43  16  0.88 2.3   0.29 6.4  
29 5.6   50    2.9 e43    ---  111  37  13  0.82 1.4   0.23 3.5  
30 9.4   48    3.1 e41    ---  108  33  12  1.1   1.0   0.15 2.1  
 
31 9.6   ---    5.5 e39    ---  109  ---  11  ---      0.79 0.06 ---     

TOTAL 106.56 688.8 1534.0 2583.0 6742 4484 2726 1053 209.88 29.61 87.09 61.00
MEAN 3.44 23.0 49.5 83.3 241 145 90.9 34.0 7.00 0.96 2.81 2.03
MAX 16 50 170 283 631 265 174 75 26 2.9 25 13
MIN 0.10 7.3 2.6 6.0 34 91 33 11 0.69 0.00 0.00 0.00
CFSM 0.03 0.19 0.40 0.68 1.96 1.18 0.74 0.28 0.06 0.01 0.02 0.02
IN. 0.03 0.21 0.46 0.78 2.04 1.36 0.82 0.32 0.06 0.01 0.03 0.02
e Estimated
STATISTICS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA FOR WATER YEARS 1967 - 2005, BY WATER YEAR (WY)
MEAN 40.6 66.7 84.5 66.6 109 206 216 139 107 52.9 37.5 49.6
MAX 364 390 382 279 327 673 718 695 642 363 417 410
(WY) 1987 1986 1983 1993 1974 1979 1993 2004 2000 1978 1978 1972
MIN 0.06 1.60 3.06 1.46 1.19 14.9 33.4 6.15 1.90 0.78 0.23 0.06
(WY) 1995 2000 1977 1977 2003 1968 1977 1977 1988 1988 1999 1994

SUMMARY STATISTICS FOR 2004 CALENDAR YEAR FOR 2005 WATER YEAR WATER YEARS 1967 - 2005
ANNUAL TOTAL 52281.24 20304.94  
ANNUAL MEAN 143      55.6     97.9    
HIGHEST ANNUAL MEAN 206        1993
LOWEST ANNUAL MEAN 9.24   1977
HIGHEST DAILY MEAN 3260          May 24 631            Feb 17 3260        May 24 2004
LOWEST DAILY MEAN 0.01     Sep 29 0.00       A 0.00   B
ANNUAL SEVEN-DAY MINIMUM 0.08     Sep 25 0.00       Aug 5 0.00   Jul 27 1988
MAXIMUM PEAK FLOW 672            Feb 17 3500        May 23 2004
MAXIMUM PEAK STAGE 7.41       Feb 17 11.09   May 23 2004
ANNUAL RUNOFF (CFSM) 1.16 0.452 0.796
ANNUAL RUNOFF (INCHES) 15.81 6.14   10.81  
10 PERCENT EXCEEDS 339      165        268       
50 PERCENT EXCEEDS 33      16        34       
90 PERCENT EXCEEDS 2.3   0.08   2.6    

A - Many days.

B - At times in most years.


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