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KASKASKIA RIVER BASIN


05594450       SILVER CREEK NEAR TROY, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 38°43'00", long 89°49'45" (NAD of 1927), in SE1/4SW1/4 sec.12, T.3 N., R.7 W., Madison County, Hydrologic Unit 07140204, on right bank at upstream side of bridge on U.S. Highway 40, 0.2 mi upstream from railroad bridge, 1.9 mi upstream from East Fork Silver Creek, 1.9 mi southeast of Troy, and at mile 44.6.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 154 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1966 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1978-91.

 

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

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 438.91 ft above NGVD of 1929 (438.41 ft NAVD 1988).

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 10,600 ft3/s, April 12, 1979, gage height, 17.52 ft; maximum gage height, 17.95 ft, Jan. 6, 2005, discharge, 7,450 ft3/s; no flow for several days in 1967-68, 1973, 1988.




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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data