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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05539335       SUGAR RUN AT MILLS ROAD AT JOLIET, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°30'09", long 88°04'41" (NAD of 1927), in SE¼ SW¼ NW¼ sec.22, T.35N., R.10E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 19 feet downstream of bridge at Mills Road.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 12.8 mi².

 

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 19 feet downstream of Mills Road and continues downstream for 656 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
7/11/2000
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 502.4606 37967.39625
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 502.4606 27320.098
Amphora ovalis (Kützing) Kützing 2512.3046 13417685.19
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 41201.80067 4110700.768
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve 502.4606 215951.4267
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 502.4606 366068.4433
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 502.4606 345022.6112
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 2009.84347 2251037.079
Gomphonema angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 502.4606 158569.0583
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 502.4606 82771.4096
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 1004.92173 334771.9106
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 502.4606 3527770.543
Navicula canalis Patrick 502.4606 40236.84386
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 9044.29773 2338997.88
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 1004.92173 512203.7481
Navicula gregaria Donkin 4522.1486 1218039.074
Navicula minima Grunow 28640.27607 1142658.444
Navicula pseudoventralis Hustedt 4522.1486 733788.6244
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 502.4606 251759.3846
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 502.4606 65494.3938
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 4522.1486 4223401.608
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 502.4606 532958.9217
Navicula veneta Kützing 502.4606 79292.39845
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 502.4606 93212.85954
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 4522.1486 1151554.011
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 13063.9852 650205.5082
Nitzschia sociabilis Hustedt 502.4606 114977.1281
Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 5024.60973 1031272.846
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 2009.84347 272018.3512
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 502.4606 84312.05777
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 18339.82604 9323059.695
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 1004.92173 2452688.553
Cyanophyta
Chamaesiphon incrustans Grunow 2134.12759 59320.26063
Chroococcus limneticus Lemmermann 26143.06295 3060747.059
Homoeothrix janthina (Bornet et Flahault) Starmach 26676.59485 207325.3147
Lyngbya major Meneghini 66157.95523 22435485.78
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 30944.85003 61933162.3


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