05544080 DATA: Peri-Quant

Station list Available data
ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN

05544080 JERICHO CREEK NR JERICHO, WI


LOCATION.-- Lat 42°51'32", long 88°25'57" (NAD of 1927), at SW¼ SE¼ sec.25, T.5N., R.17E., Waukesha County, Hydrologic Unit 07120006, at the bridge at Hwy 99.

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 12.2 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 at Highway LO (Highway 99) and continues upstream for 492 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
	Taxon	Cells (number/cm²)	Biovolume (biovolume/cm²)

Reach A 7/19/2000

Chrysophyta
	Achnanthidium affine (Grunow) Czarnecki	12052.29116	848690.9036
	Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki	21091.50984	1146800.597
	Amphora copulata (Kützing) Schoeman et Archibald	1807.84374	3023693.554
	Amphora inariensis Krammer	1205.22874	186670.7448
	Amphora ovalis (Kützing) Kützing	4820.91621	25747489.41
	Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow	118715.0716	11844194.38
	Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve	2410.45748	1035985.174
	Cocconeis neothumensis Krammer	6026.14495	1246786.229
	Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg	36156.87473	116102016.6
	Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg	1205.22874	878071.2538
	Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve	3615.68747	2482769.66
	Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck	6026.14495	6749319.515
	Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing	1205.22874	1027524.645
	Cymbella mesiana Cholnoky	1205.22874	2584613.034
	Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann	2410.45748	511293.2662
	Fragilaria vaucheriae (Kützing) Petersen	1205.22874	264291.0033
	Gomphonema olivaceum (Lyngbye) Kützing	1205.22874	470835.9671
	Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing	2410.45748	610471.0055
	Gyrosigma attenuatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst	2410.45748	23424914.21
	Karayevia clevei (Grunow) Kingston	3615.68747	498492.4901
	Melosira varians Agardh	1205.22874	6081919.923
	Navicula capitatoradiata Germain	2410.45748	1381365.144
	Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot	33746.416	8727354.824
	Navicula lenzii Hustedt ex Schmidt	4820.91621	36161692.52
	Navicula minima Grunow	29528.11353	1178080.413
	Navicula radiosa Kützing	2410.45748	2676553.986
	Navicula tenelloides Hustedt	1205.22874	199347.2518
	Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory	17475.82237	16321316
	Navicula veneta Kützing	1205.22874	190194.9676
	Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith	602.61374	111005.1269
	Nitzschia amphibia Grunow	1205.22874	223585.3266
	Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow	12052.29116	3069086.279
	Nitzschia sociabilis Hustedt	1205.22874	275790.2596
	Nitzschia tropica Hustedt	1205.22874	256698.3104
	Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova	1205.22874	247366.4105
	Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot	2410.45748	326238.675
	Planothidium rostratum (Østrup) Lange-Bertalot	2410.45748	204401.2736
	Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot	8436.60369	4288751.684
	Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky	1205.22874	657877.4413
	Staurosirella lapponica (Grunow) Williams et Round	4820.91621	3222748.269
Cyanophyta
	Phormidium granulatum	123859.1903	10242888.47
Rhodophyta
	Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia)	60052.94073	120190226.2