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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05585800       MCKEE CREEK NEAR VERSAILLES, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 39°52'47", long 90°45'32" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4NW1/4 sec.21, T.2 S., R.3 W., Brown County, Hydrologic Unit 07130011. Downstream boundary is located 20 meters upstream from county road bridge, 5.5 mi west of Versailles..

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- Undetermined

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Miscellaneous discharge, water years 1972-73.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 1997.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1997.

 

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).



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
8/6/1997

Chlorophyta
Characium Rabenhorstii De Toni 11372.85412 1285587.43
Cladophora sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 22745.70824 27640129.74
Gloeocystis vesiculosa Nägeli 68237.12472 20102325.26
Pediastrum simplex (Meyen) Lemmermann 90982.83296 30658624.22
Scenedesmus acuminatus (Lagerheim) Chodat 45491.41648 5046506.704
Scenedesmus intermedius Chodat 45491.41648 745674.7195
Schroederia setigera (Schröder) Lemmermann 11372.85412 4531440.613
Unknown Chlorophyte unicellular coccoid small 1 sp. 0A NAWQA EDJ 11372.85412 318503.6244
Chrysophyta
Achnanthidium affine (Grunow) Czarnecki 676.21853 118715.691
Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeman et Archibald 338.10358 565492.2464
Amphora montana Krasske 338.10358 72703.70301
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 1352.43707 127296.8102
Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen 845.27601 307010.4811
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve 1690.55202 726578.6024
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 338.10358 233306.8184
Cyclostephanos dubius (Frick) Round 8452.79421 2155868.127
Cyclostephanos invisitatus (Hohn et Hellerman) Theriot, Stoermer et Hĺkansson 4057.33394 730108.3545
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 5409.78238 453753.7422
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 17919.92192 15484764.42
Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann 1183.39096 242927.0159
Epithemia sorex Kützing 338.10358 581374.0671
Fallacia tenera (Hustedt) Mann 338.10358 52569.47145
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 3212.05793 1070040.319
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 845.27601 183821.2852
Heterothrix sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 113728.5412 123246767.1
Mayamaea atomus (Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 338.10358 9481.91581
Navicula arvensis Hustedt 338.10358 25151.61513
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 338.10358 195336.7656
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 845.27601 223330.8785
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 1014.33349 444530.3843
Navicula exilis Kützing 676.21853 240848.464
Navicula germainii Wallace 3719.23036 2454925.772
Navicula gregaria Donkin 338.10358 94311.74474
Navicula meniscus Schumann 338.10358 565455.2235
Navicula minima Grunow 22146.32471 887727.6716
Navicula rostellata Kützing 338.10358 299692.2461
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 1352.43707 98484.95003
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 2028.66697 2322816.199
Navicula tantula Hustedt 169.0461 9102.6239
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 338.10358 55923.01051
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 8621.85169 1606543.309
Nitzschia angustatula Lange-Bertalot 676.21853 250020.0922
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 7776.56431 382958.0705
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 3381.11541 188080.6061
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 338.10358 102389.1679
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 7100.34578 1210625.886
Pleurosigma angulatum (Quekett) Smith 338.10358 5598954.855
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 1014.33349 517152.3422
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 1014.33349 56900.01231
Stephanodiscus minutulus (Kützing) Cleve et Möller 12848.24311 4091732.285
Surirella minuta Brébisson 338.10358 288953.815
Cyanophyta
Jaaginema pseudogeminatum (Schmidle) Anagnostidis & Komárek 341185.6236 1337142.267
Nostoc oryzae (Fritsch) Komárek & Anagnostidis 204711.3742 10284699.44
Oscillatoria angustissima West & West 1421606.765 167857730.3
Oscillatoria fremyii De Toni 375304.186 524209.3571
Snowella lacustris (Chodat) Komárek & Hindák 909828.3296 5223843.509
Synechocystis aquatilis Sauvageau 22745.70824 3282910.184
Rhodophyta
Phragmonema sp. 0A UL NAWQA EJ 22745.70824 5713721.91



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