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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05527960       MILL CREEK AT WADSWORTH, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°25'07", long 87°56'16" (NAD of 1927), in SW¼ SE¼ sec.32 , T46N, R11E, Lake County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 69 feet downstream of Hwy 41 Bridge.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 65.3 mi².

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1962-1976; Miscellaneous discharge measurements, water year 2000.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 2000.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

FISH: Water year 2001.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000-01.

 

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 167 feet downstream of Highway 41 and continues downstream for 558 feet.

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
7/18/2000
Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus spinosus Chodat 754.31569 12440.82979
Chrysophyta
Achnanthidium affine (Grunow) Czarnecki 186.69313 13146.44346
Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeman et Archibald 186.69313 312252.0013
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 1306.85194 130384.5261
Aulacoseira muzzanensis (Meister) Krammer 746.77253 2513832.777
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 186.69313 599483.4861
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 1120.1588 816093.419
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 560.0794 384587.4829
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 186.69313 209097.4611
Craticula molestiformis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 2707.05044 303849.0357
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 2707.05044 225198.3377
Cyclotella comensis Grunow et Van Heurck 186.69313 23753.80797
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 6160.87341 5252487.806
Cyclotella ocellata Pantocsek 373.38627 70936.72052
Cyclotella stelligera (Cleve et Grunow) Van Heurck 186.69313 45250.48134
Diatoma tenuis Agardh 746.77253 86101.05383
Diploneis parma Cleve 186.69313 1400385.196
Gomphonema olivaceum (Lyngbye) Kützing 186.69313 72933.7421
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 933.46567 236408.9512
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve 186.69313 273557.0975
Hippodonta capitata (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 186.69313 111204.5584
Mayamaea atomus (Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 373.38627 10471.398
Mayamaea atomus var. permitis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 2613.70387 106228.3931
Navicula cryptocephala Kützing 560.0794 188478.7192
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 2053.62447 531099.6411
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 1306.85194 666096.1121
Navicula germainii Wallace 186.69313 82655.45571
Navicula gregaria Donkin 560.0794 150857.1821
Navicula minima Grunow 1120.1588 44690.87208
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 14188.67816 7109279.578
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 186.69313 92343.42896
Navicula tantula Hustedt 186.69313 9457.87933
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 186.69313 198025.0217
Navicula veneta Kützing 2613.70387 412463.8804
Nitzschia agnita Hustedt 186.69313 17932.7077
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 186.69313 34633.96104
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 373.38627 95081.89394
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 1306.85194 65043.11769
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 933.46567 272063.6975
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 1680.2382 270183.4587
Nitzschia sociabilis Hustedt 186.69313 42720.64386
Nitzschia valdecostata Lange-Bertalot et Simonsen 186.69313 2186923.368
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 560.0794 75802.85613
Planothidium rostratum (Østrup) Lange-Bertalot 186.69313 15831.15014
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 373.38627 189811.0949
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 186.69313 101906.9633
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 373.38627 27463.16915
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 186.69313 10402.80661
Skeletonema potamos (Weber) Hasle 2427.01074 115948.3148
Stephanodiscus hantzschii Grunow 373.38627 118969.9884
Thalassiosira pseudonana Hasle et Heimdal 933.46567 42016.71894


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