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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05586645       MACOUPIN CREEK NEAR CARLINVILLE, IL.

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 39°18'16", long 89°47'15" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4NW1/4 sec.20, T.10 N., R.6 W., Macoupin County, Hydrologic Unit 07130007, 0.1 mi. upstream from Sugar Creek, 0.5 mi downstream from Shaw Point, and 1.8 mi northeast of Carlinville. To reach gage, drive east from Carlinville 1.6 mi then turn north on county road and drive 0.7 mi to site.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 132 mi2

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water years 1979 and 1997.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 1997.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1997.

 

REMARKS.--Established in the summer of 1979 as a coal hydrology synoptic site downstream of mining activity. 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 120 meters upstream from the SR 20 bridge and continues upstream for 100 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
8/8/1997
Chlorophyta
Coelastrum microporum Nägeli 29745.9828 2610193.056
Crucigenia quadrata Morren 59491.96559 3723428.034
Lagerheimia chodatii Bernard 3718.24785 996292.1171
Pediastrum duplex var. gracilimum West & West 14872.9914 3663311.977
Scenedesmus opoliensis Richter 14872.9914 1365685.581
Unknown Chlorophyte unicellular coccoid small 2 sp. 0A NAWQA EDJ 3718.24785 252181.0369
Chrysophyta
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 18188.19234 1711945.735
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve 6062.72954 2605687.08
Chrysococcus rufescens Klebs 22309.4871 3228219.965
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 21219.5571 67623175.22
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 3031.36477 2285768.455
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 10609.77855 7321228.827
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 68205.72033 5720858.741
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 37892.0652 32742871.64
Cyclotella nana Hustedt 15156.82385 344340.8236
Diadesmis confervacea Kützing 9094.09431 4597139.22
Diploneis puella (Schumann) Cleve 6062.72954 1768350.245
Fallacia omissa (Hustedt) Mann 3031.36477 571532.9569
Fallacia tenera (Hustedt) Mann 3031.36477 471326.6971
Gomphonema angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 9094.09431 2854341.54
Gomphonema gracile Ehrenberg emend Van Heurck 6062.72954 4938588.665
Gomphonema insigne Gregory 6062.72954 13073949.88
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 19703.87286 6563996.921
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 18188.19234 3955367.066
Gomphosphenia grovei (Schmid) Lange-Bertalot 124285.9816 133365197.9
Hippodonta capitata (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 3031.36477 1889912.167
Melosira lineata Agardh 13641.14332 13941712.41
Melosira varians Agardh 12125.45908 61530036.35
Navicula cincta (Ehrenberg) Ralfs 9094.09431 5696044.956
Navicula cryptocephala Kützing 6062.72954 2051662.54
Navicula exilis Kützing 9094.09431 3239039.657
Navicula germainii Wallace 3031.36477 2000891.252
Navicula gregaria Donkin 6062.72954 1691158.078
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 9094.09431 393983.526
Navicula minima Grunow 136411.4407 5468004.836
Navicula sp. 0T UL NAWQA KM 21219.5571 159167897.8
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 3031.36477 220745.0648
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 9094.09431 10412704.43
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 6062.72954 1002787.63
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 9094.09431 9916228.716
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 77299.81464 14403576.45
Nitzschia angustatula Lange-Bertalot 9094.09431 3362383.884
Nitzschia capitellata Hustedt 6062.72954 2396364.006
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 3031.36477 770649.528
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 19703.87286 970320.161
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 3031.36477 1208916.344
Nitzschia microcephala Grunow 9094.09431 987491.5776
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 15156.82385 4589997.484
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 87909.59691 14988795.9
Nitzschia palea var. tenuirostris Grunow 9094.09431 3140232.08
Nitzschia solita Hustedt 3031.36477 808670.3209
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 9094.09431 2574547.245
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 54564.57701 27819449.11
Sellaphora mutata (Krasske) Lange-Bertalot 3031.36477 697168.6067
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 12125.45908 6817099.433
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 21219.5571 1190331.461
Surirella minuta Brébisson 6062.72954 5181396.864
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 3031.36477 7398579.831
Cyanophyta
Heteroleibleinia infixa (Frémy) Anagnostidis & Komárek 130138.6747 694680.2457
Jaaginema subtilissima (Kützing) Anagnostidis & Komárek 29745.9828 743649.5699
Leptolyngbya ochracea (Thuret) Anagnostidis & Komárek 78083.20484 46117.8047
Leptolyngbya perelegans (Lemmermann) Anagnostidis & Komárek 171039.4011 972756.6617
Leptolyngbya rivulariarum (Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek 55773.71774 51543.78829
Oscillatoria angustissima West & West 516836.4511 61026013.5
Oscillatoria fremyii De Toni 420162.007 586864.9054
Phormidium diguetii 464780.9812 29245512.96


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Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data