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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05540032       W BR DUPAGE R AT GARYS MILL RD NR W CHICAGO, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat. 41°51'30", long. 88°11'37" (NAD of 1927), SW¼ SW¼ SE¼ sec.15, T.39N, R.9E., Du Page County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 66 feet downstream of Gary's Mill Road.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 60.6mi²

 

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.

 

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 66 feet downstream of Gary's Mill Road and continues downstream for 984 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
7/10/2000

Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus ecornis (Ralfs) Chodat 2867.58297 37636.33195
Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Brébisson 1433.79149 49912.87088
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 1388.4636 104916.3811
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 20132.72224 2008640.288
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 5553.85441 17833778.55
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 6248.08621 4552052.824
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 5553.85441 3813643.002
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 9719.24522 10885614.59
Ctenophora pulchella (Ralfs ex Kützing) Williams et Round 2776.9272 5169559.642
Cyclostephanos dubius (Frick) Round 694.2318 177062.4216
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 1041.3477 86629.25822
Cyclotella bodanica Grunow 694.2318 833866.525
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 2082.6954 1775613.859
Cyclotella ocellata Pantocsek 694.2318 131891.6403
Dinobryon divergens Imhof 1433.79149 71689.57433
Diploneis parma Cleve 694.2318 5207432.741
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 694.2318 114362.2899
Hippodonta capitata (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 694.2318 413522.1223
Hippodonta lueneburgensis (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 694.2318 553403.8172
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 6942.31801 1795392.808
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 694.2318 353846.592
Navicula germainii Wallace 1388.4636 614720.475
Navicula gregaria Donkin 8330.78161 2243892.986
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 5553.85441 240609.6824
Navicula minima Grunow 27769.27205 1107908.078
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 34017.35898 17044499.34
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 694.2318 90491.2564
Navicula rostellata Kützing 1388.4636 1201749.613
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 2082.6954 1030156.982
Navicula tantula Hustedt 1388.4636 70339.60459
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 694.2318 114827.3328
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 3471.15901 3241843.606
Navicula veneta Kützing 694.2318 109555.4649
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith 694.2318 127881.7316
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 1388.4636 257577.734
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 14925.98373 742878.7376
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 694.2318 276861.4913
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 2082.6954 607013.0178
Nitzschia reversa Smith 1388.4636 854074.6194
Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 1388.4636 284974.3338
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 9719.24522 1315432.322
Planothidium rostratum (Østrup) Lange-Bertalot 694.2318 58869.26671
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 2082.6954 349472.8447
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 10066.36112 5117239.686
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 694.2318 378948.3487
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 4859.62261 357433.1715
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 694.2318 38683.58214
Tryblionella hungarica (Grunow) Mann 1388.4636 1227483.019
Tryblionella victoriae Grunow 1388.4636 1201217.975
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 10036.54041 20087177.2



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