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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05540260       EAST BRANCH DUPAGE RIVER NR NAPERVILLE, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°42'40", long 88°07'41" (NAD of 1927), in SE¼ SW¼ SE¼ sec.5, T.37N., R.10E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 73 feet downstream of Naperville Road Bridge.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 80.40 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.

 

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 105 feet downstream of Naperville 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
7/14/2000

Chlorophyta
Scenedesmus ecornis (Ralfs) Chodat 5985.54198 78558.78872
Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Brébisson 8978.31297 312551.2882
Chrysophyta
Amphora ovalis (Kützing) Kützing 2952.86688 15770634.74
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 64963.08181 6481362.123
Aulacoseira alpigena (Grunow) Krammer 738.21635 48336.49048
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 1476.43269 4740918.958
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 5905.73376 4302631.418
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 5905.73376 4055266.586
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 4429.30107 4960844.512
Cyclotella bodanica Grunow 1476.43269 1773395.853
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 2952.86688 2517483.519
Diadesmis confervacea Kützing 1476.43269 746348.8282
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 4429.30107 1121762.112
Kolbesia ploenensis (Hustedt) Kingston 10335.03482 15430206.99
Luticola goeppertiana (Bleisch) Mann 1476.43269 1155325.098
Navicula cryptocephala Kützing 1476.43269 496851.236
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 23622.93802 6109263.933
Navicula germainii Wallace 4429.30107 1961003.551
Navicula gregaria Donkin 13287.9032 3579091.875
Navicula minima Grunow 48722.31173 1943869.563
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 72345.24975 36248803.51
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 14764.33589 1031349.104
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 2952.86688 1460567.122
Navicula tantula Hustedt 738.21635 37398.06053
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 7382.16795 6894479.311
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 2952.86688 3132099.806
Navicula veneta Kützing 22146.50533 3494899.949
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 1476.43269 273897.1237
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 2214.65053 563955.3073
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 17717.20427 881800.1266
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 2952.86688 1177611.176
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 4429.30107 1290944.131
Nitzschia recta Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 1476.43269 2095744.911
Nitzschia reversa Smith 1476.43269 908186.3483
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 4429.30107 599475.1297
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 3691.08322 619357.6612
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 47245.87754 24017465.37
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 17717.20427 1303129.28
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 7382.16795 411344.8845
Surirella minuta Brébisson 4429.30107 3670842.662
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 1476.43269 3603494.123
Tryblionella hungarica (Grunow) Mann 1476.43269 1305252.838
Cyanophyta
Oscillatoria limosa (Dillwyn) Agardh 44891.56486 36019990.49
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 53869.87783 107815416.3



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