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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05538490       SPRING CREEK NR JOLIET, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°32'22", long 88°03'17" (NAD of 1927), in SE¼ SW¼ sec.2, T.35N., R.10E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 56 feet upstream from RB bridge on Draper Road.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 18.00 mi².

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1962-1970; 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 56 feet upstream of Draper Road and continues upstream 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
7/21/2000
Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus arcuatus Lemmermann 3922.61398 278822.915
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 12196.05997 921570.0527
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 108357.3079 10810801.02
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve 938.15786 403208.7839
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 938.15786 644201.1038
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 3752.63338 4202972.535
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 938.15786 799831.8371
Fallacia tenera (Hustedt) Mann 938.15786 145867.91
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 2814.47553 463634.5752
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 1876.31669 625061.7367
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 1876.31669 485245.0564
Navicula gregaria Donkin 2814.47553 758077.956
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 938.15786 40643.82086
Navicula minima Grunow 44562.52855 1777907.078
Navicula pseudoventralis Hustedt 9850.66435 1598422.803
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 3283.55446 1645234.77
Navicula sublucidula Hustedt 938.15786 7037122.076
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 2814.47553 196602.5994
Navicula tantula Hustedt 3752.63338 190108.5113
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 938.15786 995102.1022
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 938.15786 174040.266
Nitzschia capitellata Hustedt 938.15786 351681.1731
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 938.15786 238899.5889
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 41278.97409 2054489.187
Nitzschia perminuta (Grunow) Peragallo 938.15786 91038.59902
Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 5628.95106 1155310.499
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 7505.26775 1015785.852
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 2814.47553 472264.3395
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 7505.26775 3815306.597
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 2814.47553 207009.267
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 5628.95106 313653.149
Cyanophyta
Chroococcus limneticus Lemmermann 76490.97256 8955320.946
Homoeothrix janthina (Bornet et Flahault) Starmach 152981.9451 1188945.969
Oscillatoria limosa (Dillwyn) Agardh 11767.84193 9442253.924
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 37264.83278 74582004.27


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