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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05538270       HICKORY CREEK AT SCHMUHL RD NR NEW LENOX, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°31'04", long 87°55'39" (NAD of 1927), in SEź NEź SEź sec.14, T.35N., R.11E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120003, 157 feet upstream of School House Road Bridge.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 49.13 mi˛.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Miscellaneous discharge measurements, water year 2000.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, 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 157 feet upstream of School House Road and continues upstream for 787 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
7/13/2000

Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Brébisson 4150.97469 144502.925
Chrysophyta
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 79449.65552 7926686.568
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 913.21443 665323.7793
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 913.21443 627073.3022
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 8218.92988 9205252.158
Diatoma vulgaris Bory 913.21443 3338183.439
Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann 1826.42886 387412.2592
Fragilaria vaucheriae (Kützing) Petersen 2739.64329 600768.1782
Gomphonema angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 913.21443 288196.8305
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 8218.92988 1353921.903
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 5479.28659 1825327.465
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 913.21443 6411668.837
Melosira varians Agardh 6392.50102 32258340.67
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 913.21443 523337.4136
Navicula cari Ehrenberg 913.21443 128380.2432
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 10045.35874 2597888.028
Navicula gregaria Donkin 4566.07216 1229869.868
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 4566.07216 197815.9833
Navicula minima Grunow 11871.78761 473647.6117
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 10045.35874 5033257.008
Navicula rostellata Kützing 913.21443 790409.6928
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 913.21443 63791.75416
Navicula tantula Hustedt 913.21443 46263.4684
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 913.21443 151047.4992
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 5479.28659 5117308.127
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 1826.42886 338825.8842
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 13241.60925 3371943.204
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 29222.8618 1454446.359
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 913.21443 266161.3632
Nitzschia sp. 1? 1369.82165 2118362.415
Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 913.21443 187432.1183
Planothidium rostratum (Řstrup) Lange-Bertalot 913.21443 77438.4922
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 6392.50102 1072651.1
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 48400.36486 24604349.57
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 913.21443 50885.60536
Tryblionella victoriae Grunow 913.21443 790060.0258
Cyanophyta
Chroococcus distans (GM Smith) Komárková-Legnerová 122453.7533 3061343.832
Microcystis aeruginosa Kützing 622646.2032 614102.463
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 213775.1964 427850641.5



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