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BIG MUDDY RIVER BASIN


05596500       TILLEY CREEK NEAR WEST FRANKFORT, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 37°53'40", long 88°48'45" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4SW1/4 sec.19, T.7 S., R.4 E., hydrologic unit 07140106, on right bank 200 ft downstream from outlet of West Frankfort Reservoir, 6 mi east of West Frankfort, and at mile 3.4.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 4.03 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1938 to September 1955.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 1278: Drainage area.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and concrete control. Datum of gage is 420.98 ft above NGVD of 1929 (420.68 ft NAVD 1988).

 

REMARKS.-- Flow regulated by West Frankfort Reservoir (area at crest of spillway, 183 acres). Records adjusted for pumpage and change in reservoir contents, but not for evaporation and seepage. Records furnished by the Illinois State Water Survey.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 347 ft3/s, Jan 4, 1950, gage height, 3.09 ft; no flow for periods in most years.




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