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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05564300       MACKINAW RIVER NEAR KAPPA, IL.

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 40°40'43", long 88°56'32" (NAD of 1927), in sec.36, T.26 N, R.2 E, McLean County, Hydrologic Unit 07130004. Located at CR1725 E, 3.4 miles east of Kappa.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 309 mi2

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 1997.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1997.

 

REMARKS.--Station established as a low-flow water-quality sampling site in August 1997 as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA), Lower Illinois River Basin synoptic study.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Algae community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the lower Illinois River Basin. A quantitative sample was collected in accordance with NAWQA protocols (Cuffney and others, 1993). Reach A begins 19 meters downstream from the 2700 N bridge and continues downstream for 96 meters.

PERIPHYTON ALGAE, QUANTITATIVE, RTH (Richest-targeted habitat, cobbles or snags)
[sp., species; Chlorophyta, Green algae; Cyanophyta, Blue-green algae; Chrysophyta, Golden algae, for example diatoms; Cryptophyta, Cryptophytes; Euglenophyta, Euglenoids; Pyrrhophyta, Dinoflagellates; Rhodophyta, Red algae]
Quantitative sample
Phylum
TaxonCells
(number/cm2)		Biovolume
(biovolume/cm2)
Reach A
8/14/1997
Chlorophyta
Gloeocystis vesiculosa Nägeli 19500.95458 5744886.429
Chrysophyta
Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeman et Archibald 4450.66386 7443919.711
Amphora montana Krasske 2225.33193 478521.6167
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 30598.34329 2880039.003
Apistonema polychloris Ettl 19500.95458 5653846.757
Chrysosphaera gallica Bourrelly 4875.23864 1325885.746
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 8344.99961 5758428.551
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 1112.66597 1215849.752
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 26704.00754 23075171.19
Cymatopleura solea var. apiculata (Smith) Ralfs 2225.33193 13570537.43
Cymbella affinis Kützing 18915.33603 11207904.44
Gomphonema angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1112.66597 349229.7943
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 1112.66597 370664.9967
Gomphonema olivaceum (Lyngbye) Kützing 2781.66491 1086688.232
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 2781.66491 604925.7442
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1112.66597 7812015.941
Melosira varians Agardh 6119.66768 31053947.95
Navicula canalis Patrick 3337.9979 1110189.792
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 37830.67694 9995265.713
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 3337.9979 1462873.412
Navicula exilis Kützing 3894.33088 1387042.153
Navicula germainii Wallace 3337.9979 2203288.385
Navicula gregaria Donkin 2225.33193 620741.54
Navicula minima Grunow 42281.34568 1694832.937
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 1112.66597 145241.4768
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 3894.33088 283586.565
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 3337.9979 3821995.275
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 3894.33088 644130.1407
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 3337.9979 3117479.527
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 4450.66386 4853017.715
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith 1112.66597 208136.4388
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 7788.66663 1451292.682
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 8344.99961 2121509.783
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 14464.6673 712314.7008
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 35049.01203 1949664.127
Nitzschia linearis (Agardh ex Smith) Smith 3337.9979 9932006.572
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 25591.34158 4363384.764
Ochromonas sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 14625.71593 454463.6523
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 6119.66768 3120078.869
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 1668.99895 938334.1041
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 4450.66386 329548.089
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 29485.67733 1654027.424
Surirella angusta Kützing 1112.66597 1220253.303
Surirella minuta Brébisson 1112.66597 950918.8733
Surirella turgida Smith 2781.66491 12040579.09
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 2225.33193 5431314.669
Cyanophyta
Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli 58502.86373 487600.3815
Cyanosarcina spectabilis (Geitler) Kovácik 156007.6366 15047983.09
Cyanothece aeruginosa (Nägeli) Komárek 4875.23864 6874210.778
Jaaginema pseudogeminatum (Schmidle) Anagnostidis & Komárek 112130.4888 439451.154
Jaaginema subtilissima (Kützing) Anagnostidis & Komárek 14625.71593 365642.8983
Leptolyngbya perelegans (Lemmermann) Anagnostidis & Komárek 165758.1139 942720.2651
Leptolyngbya purpurascens (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek 414395.2847 2646465.792
Oscillatoria angustissima West & West 1711208.764 202052794.3
Oscillatoria fremyii De Toni 341266.7051 476667.2123
Oscillatoria subbrevis fo. minor Desik. 48752.38644 1777415.317
Synechocystis aquatilis Sauvageau 9750.47729 1407295.867


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