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UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN


05587455       MISSISSIPPI RIVER BELOW GRAFTON, IL

 
(Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network Station)
 

LOCATION.-- Lat 38°57'04", long 90°22'16" (NAD of 1927), in sec.24, T.6 N., R.11 W., Jersey County, Hydrologic Unit 07110009, 11.3 mi above Lock and Dam 26, 19.0 mi above mouth of Missouri River, and at mile 214.6 upstream from the mouth of the Ohio River.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 171,300 mi2, approximately.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: March 1989 to current year.

 

SEDIMENT: October 1989 to current year.

 

REMARKS.-- Ambient Water-Quality Monitoring Network station Nov. 1992 to current year. National Stream-Quality Accounting Network station September 1989 to October 1992. Discharge for sediment records obtained from Mississippi River at Grafton (05587450).

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily mean, 1,910 mg/L, May 23, 1990; minimum daily mean, 1 mg/L, Sept. 10, 1991.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 1,090,000 tons, May 23, 1990; minimum daily, 186 tons, Sept. 10, 1991.




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