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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05526400       ROCK CREEK BELOW DESELM, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°13'11", long 87°58'39" (NAD of 1983), in SE1/4SE1/4 sec.29, T.32 N., R.11 E., Kankakee County, Hydrologic Unit 07120001, at downstream side of bridge on county road, 2.0 mi south of Deselm, and at mile 2.5.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 118.8 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Miscellaneous low-flow discharge measurements, June 1970 to December 1972.

BIOLOGICAL

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2005.

 

GAGE.-- Nonrecording gage. Gage datum undetermined.

 

REMARKS.-- Biology station established in 2005 as part of a comparative study of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) program and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) invertabrate sampling techniques.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Minimum measured discharge, 3.86 ft3/s, Sept. 16, 1971, gage height unknown.




Table of Contents

Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data