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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05567000       PANTHER CREEK NEAR EL PASO, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°46'24", long 89°04'37" (NAD of 1983), in SE1/4NW1/4 sec.26, T.27 N., R.1 E., Woodford County, Hydrologic Unit 07130004, on right bank on downstream side of bridge on county road just downstream from East Branch Panther Creek, 2 mi upstream from West Branch, 3.8 mi northwest of El Paso, and at mi 12.9.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 93.9 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1949 to September 1960, October 1996- September 1998.

 

STAGE: Water years 1997-1998.

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water yars 1961-96.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: October 1997 to September 1998.

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Contaminants in streambed sediments, August 1996; contaminants in fish tissue, August 1996; streambank sediment size, October 1997; streambed sediment size, October 1997.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water years 1996-98.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water years 1996-98.

 

FISH: Water years 1996-98.

 

HABITAT: Water years 1996-98, 2003.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area. WDR IL-92-2: 1988 (M).

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 658.86 ft above NGVD of 1929 (658.69 ft NAVD 1988).

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.-- Fish community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA), in the lower Illinois River Basin. Taxonomy is based on Robins and others (1991), except where modified for the family Moronidae (Johnson, 1984) and the order Cyprinidontiformes (Parenti, 1981). Common names were compared to the current Illinois fish species list posted by Illinois Natural History Survey. Collection methods followed Meador and others (1993). Collections were taken with seines. Fishes were identified in the field by C. A. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. Representative specimens were preserved, identified, and vouchered at the Illinois Natural History Survey fish collection. Reach A begins 66 feet upstream of the gage, and continues upstream for 459 feet.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
7/11/1997
 

Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Hypentelium nigricans northern hog sucker 3
Ictiobus bubalus smallmouth buffalo 1
Moxostoma erythrurum golden redhorse 4
Cyprinidae
Cyprinella lutrensis red shiner 15
Luxilus chrysocephalus striped shiner 46
Lythrurus umbratilis redfin shiner 22
Nocomis biguttatus hornyhead chub 2
Notropis dorsalis bigmouth shiner 9
Notropis stramineus sand shiner 21
Pimephales notatus bluntnose minnow 6
Semotilus atromaculatus creek chub 9
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Ambloplites rupestris rock bass 3
Lepomis cyanellus green sunfish 1
Lepomis megalotis longear sunfish 1
Micropterus dolomieu smallmouth bass 1
Percidae
Etheostoma nigrum johnny darter 2
Etheostoma spectabile orangethroat darter 9
Percina maculata blackside darter 8
Percina phoxocephala slenderhead darter 3
Siluriformes
Ictaluridae
Ameiurus natalis yellow bullhead 1
Noturus gyrinus tadpole madtom 1


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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data