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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05552450       BUCK CREEK NR WEDRON, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°26'12", long 88°48'14" (NAD of 1927), at NW¼ SW¼ NW¼ sec.8, T.34N., R.4E., La Salle County, Hydrologic Unit 07120007, 492 feet downstream of bridge at 19th Road.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 39.93 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 492 feet downstream of 19th Road and continues downstream 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
TaxonCells
(number/cm2)		Biovolume
(biovolume/cm2)
Reach A
7/25/2000
Chlorophyta
Cosmarium granatum Brébisson ex Ralfs 6241.16754 530499.2405
Scenedesmus spinosus Chodat 12482.33507 205869.5156
Chrysophyta
Achnanthidium affine (Grunow) Czarnecki 11941.4318 840884.477
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 14926.79132 811608.7145
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 241814.0362 24125769.46
Caloneis bacillum (Grunow) Cleve 5970.7159 2566140.744
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 2985.35639 2049942.737
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 2985.35639 3343617.57
Encyonema minutum (Hilse) Mann 32838.94214 6965619.645
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 5970.7159 983568.8044
Gomphonema minutum (Agardh) Agardh 8956.07541 2983558.2
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 2985.35639 756069.556
Melosira varians Agardh 2985.35639 15064939.87
Navicula canalis Patrick 1492.6782 119533.0728
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 17912.15083 10264948.04
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 179121.5083 46323643.95
Navicula minima Grunow 92546.11053 3692303.609
Navicula reichardtiana Lange-Bertalot 2985.35639 389133.2119
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 8956.07541 8364409.63
Navicula veneta Kützing 8956.07541 1413342.062
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 22390.18853 4153665.978
Nitzschia desertorum Hustedt 2985.35639 224615.1227
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 11941.4318 3040856.217
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 71648.60331 3566011.122
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 35824.30165 1194381.563
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 8956.07541 2610297.384
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 8956.07541 1440143.087
Nitzschia sociabilis Hustedt 5970.7159 1366267.857
Nitzschia supralitorea Lange-Bertalot 2985.35639 264943.6906
Nitzschia tropica Hustedt 2985.35639 635842.7373
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 74633.9597 37940210.57
Cyanophyta
Chroococcus limneticus Lemmermann 586669.7484 68685437.12
Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli 74894.01043 624214.7089
Gomphosphaeria aponina Kützing 424399.3924 10609984.81
Phormidium granulatum 87376.3455 7225835.726
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 234043.7826 468416281.2


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