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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05551200       FERSON CREEK NEAR ST. CHARLES, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°55'58", long 88°20'27" (NAD of 1983), in NE1/4SE1/4 sec.20, T.40 N., R.8 E., Kane County, Hydrologic Unit 07120007, on right bank at downstream side of bridge on Randall Road, 2.4 mi northwest of St. Charles, and at mile 2.2.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 51.7 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: December 1960 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, water year 2000.

PRECIPITATION: August 2000 to current year.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water year 2000.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000-01.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area. WDR IL-82-2: 1966(M), 1968(M), 1970-71(M), 1973(M), 1978-79(M).

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, crest-stage gage, and rain gage. Datum of gage is 704.84 ft above NGVD of 1929 (704.61 ft NAVD 1988).

 

REMARKS.-- Collection, computation and publication of precipitation data do not necessarily conform to standards used by the National Weather Service. Precipitation data could be subject to error for days with freezing and/or thawing of precipitation.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 2,580, Feb. 21, 1997, from rating curve extended above 1,960 ft3/s, gage height, 8.77 ft; maximum gage height, 9.66 ft, Feb. 8, 1965, from floodmark, ice jam; minimum discharge, 0.10 ft3/s, several days in 1961 and 1965.

PRECIPITATION: Maximum recorded daily total, 3.27 in., August 13, 2002.

 

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 82 feet upstream of Randall Road and continues upstream 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
7/20/2000
Chlorophyta
Closterium parvulum Nägeli 6320.85217 537272.4342
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 2236.82015 169020.689
Achnanthidium exilis (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 2236.82015 380682.0417
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 2236.82015 121621.7662
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 168879.9199 16849137.78
Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg 13420.92087 43095427.63
Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 9497.42961 6919366.957
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 2236.82015 1535948.346
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 4473.64029 5010504.717
Cyclotella pseudostelligera Hustedt 1582.90414 136785.4974
Fallacia subhamulata (Grunow) Mann 4473.64029 1278454.032
Fragilaria vaucheriae (Kützing) Petersen 2236.82015 490505.5949
Gomphonema affine Kützing 2236.82015 2805899.753
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 4473.64029 736952.3361
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 2236.82015 745157.0892
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 3355.2291 849743.2957
Gyrosigma acuminatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst 1582.90414 11113553.21
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve 1582.90414 2319392.55
Hippodonta capitata (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 1582.90414 942863.5799
Mayamaea atomus var. permitis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 14246.1452 579004.0443
Melosira varians Agardh 61512.55288 310409475.2
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 80525.52523 20825169.44
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 2236.82015 1140096.412
Navicula germainii Wallace 1582.90414 700805.9743
Navicula gregaria Donkin 15657.74102 4217406.826
Navicula minima Grunow 63749.37303 2543402.837
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 1582.90414 793118.8504
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 3165.80987 412654.8396
Navicula rostellata Kützing 1582.90414 1370042.715
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 27960.2507 1953137.596
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 3165.80987 1565894.434
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 1582.90414 261815.5214
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 8947.28058 8356195.811
Navicula veneta Kützing 4473.64029 705977.0826
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith 4748.71401 874742.0818
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 32433.89099 8259210.511
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 110722.5961 5510756.538
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 2236.82015 651933.5206
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 4748.71401 763596.4797
Nitzschia sociabilis Hustedt 1582.90414 362213.0225
Planothidium lanceolatum (Brébisson ex Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 2236.82015 302738.0678
Pleurosira laevis (Ehrenberg) Compčre 11184.10073 1223002993
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 2236.82015 375334.7214
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 7828.86939 3979809.654
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 1582.90414 116425.1824
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 6710.46044 373916.3879
Surirella minuta Brébisson 1582.90414 1311853.039
Surirella sp. 1 ? 1582.90414 1693446256
Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 8947.28058 52327685.13
Thalassiosira pseudonana Hasle et Heimdal 1582.90414 71248.93911
Cyanophyta
Leptolyngbya ochracea (Thuret) Anagnostidis & Komárek 158021.3042 93331.15437
Lyngbya sp. 1? 53503.53708 1337588.427
Phormidium formosum 49044.90899 1811729.371
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 40127.65281 80311665.17


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Introduction

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Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data