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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05532500       DES PLAINES RIVER AT RIVERSIDE, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°49'20", long 87°49'15" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4SW1/4 sec.36, T.39 N., R.12 E., Cook County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, on left bank 400 ft downstream from bridge on Barry Point Road in Riverside, 500 ft downstream from Hoffman Dam, 4,000 ft downstream from Salt Creek, and at mile 44.3.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 630 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1943 to current year. Monthly discharge only for some periods, published in WSP 1308.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1914 to 1943, from Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1987-92 and 1999 to 2004.

 

SEDIMENT: April 1979 to September 1982, January 2003 to current year.

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Contaminants in streambed sediments, August 1998; contaminants in fish tissue, August 1998; sediment concentration and particle size, water years 1998-2005.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water years 1989-90, 1999, 2002-04.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water years 1999, 2002-04.

 

FISH: Water years 1999-2000, 2002-04.

 

HABITAT: Water years 1999-2000, 2002-04.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 1174: 1944, 1948. WSP 1308: 1944(M). WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter, automatic water sampler, and rain gage, and concrete dam. Datum of gage is 594.68 ft above NGVD of 1929 (594.40 ft NAVD 1988). Prior to Nov. 27, 1946, nonrecording gage at bridge 400 ft upstream at same datum.

 

REMARKS.-- Occasional regulation by gates at Hoffman Dam.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 9,770 ft3/s, Aug. 15, 1987, gage height, 9.90 ft; no flow Aug. 22-24, 1962, and part of Sept. 5, 1968, Aug. 31, 1974, Oct. 7, 1974.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily mean, 297 mg/L Apr. 12, 1979; minimum daily mean, 3 mg/L Jan. 24, Feb. 1, 3, 4, 1982

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 3,240 tons Apr. 12, 1979; minimum daily, 1.5 tons Feb. 3, 4, 1982.

 

EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Flood of Mar. 18, 1919, reached a discharge of 7,450 ft3/s, gage height, 9.43 ft., present datum, from information furnished by Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

 

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 is located 492 ft upstream of the Joliet Road bridge (1.48 mi downstream of gage) in Riverside, and continues upstream for 984 ft.

PERIPHYTON ALGAE, QUANTITATIVE, DTH (Depositional-targeted habitat)
[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
7/17/2002
Chlorophyta
Oedogonium sp. 29331.11331 540299957.9
Scenedesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Brébisson 39108.15107 1361425.363
Chrysophyta
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 9711.85426 968951.0192
Aulacoseira alpigena (Grunow) Krammer 19423.70852 1271814.025
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 29135.57255 32632020.95
Cyclostephanos invisitatus (Hohn et Hellerman) Theriot, Stoermer et Hĺkansson 9711.85426 1678469.333
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 568143.6647 47263622.08
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 135965.9987 115918588.6
Cyclotella pseudostelligera Hustedt 9711.85426 839242.7425
Karayevia laterostrata (Hantzsch) Round et Bukhtiyarova 19423.70852 445241.5512
Navicula canalis Patrick 9711.85426 777721.4042
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 29135.57255 7568301.142
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 9711.85426 4950085.152
Navicula germainii Wallace 9711.85426 4414379.448
Navicula gregaria Donkin 116542.2902 31603536.64
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 29135.57255 1262240.66
Navicula minima Grunow 38847.42681 1553144.663
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 9711.85426 4903750.675
Navicula salinarum Grunow 19423.70852 17226901.86
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 9711.85426 678412.6466
Navicula veneta Kützing 29135.57255 4712335.163
Nitzschia acicularis (Kützing) Smith 29135.57255 5366950.149
Nitzschia capitellata Hustedt 48559.28106 18203103.91
Nitzschia desertorum Hustedt 19423.70852 1461419.71
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 9711.85426 2473099.783
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 38847.42681 1940143.103
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 38847.42681 1303775.961
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 48559.28106 14260492.84
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 58271.1451 9370040.211
Nitzschia perspicua Cholnoky 29135.57255 341294096.8
Nitzschia reversa Smith 29135.57255 17921933.99
Nitzschia solita Hustedt 19423.70852 5181618.773
Skeletonema potamos (Weber) Hasle 1383939.696 66116508.27
Stephanodiscus tenuis Hustedt 9711.85426 4422484.85
Surirella minuta Brébisson 19423.70852 16097658.93
Thalassiosira pseudonana Hasle et Heimdal 19423.70852 874290.8596
Cyanophyta
Unknown Cyanophyte Oscillatoriaceae sp. 1 MSU 351973.3597 32957007.28
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
7/17/2002
Chlorophyta
Stigeoclonium lubricum (Dillwyn) Kützing 141363.3207 59252350.81
Chrysophyta
Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta (Ehrenberg) Cleve 11682.59467 8022040.571
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 11682.59467 13084578.08
Craticula molestiformis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 70095.57391 7867778.244
Cyclotella atomus Hustedt 254096.4635 21138173.26
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 17523.892 14940094.19
Gomphonema kobayasii Kociolek et Kingston 17523.892 2886748.221
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 5841.29733 1479363.434
Karayevia laterostrata (Hantzsch) Round et Bukhtiyarova 5841.29733 133897.6171
Mayamaea atomus var. permitis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 140191.1537 5697769.033
Navicula cari Ehrenberg 5841.29733 821173.1516
Navicula cincta (Ehrenberg) Ralfs 17523.892 1756809.876
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 169397.6404 44002991.63
Navicula difficillima Hustedt 29206.48667 831501.7803
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 17523.892 8931843.015
Navicula gregaria Donkin 5841.29733 1584022.882
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 11682.59467 506125.1494
Navicula lanceolata (Agardh) Ehrenberg 5841.29733 8216511.146
Navicula minima Grunow 17523.892 700616.272
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 143111.8024 72260618.71
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 87619.46591 6120577.203
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 5841.29733 966162.2989
Navicula veneta Kützing 11682.59467 1889521.874
Nitzschia agnita Hustedt 5841.29733 561082.6473
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 5841.29733 1487471.989
Nitzschia fonticola Grunow 17523.892 1704400.133
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 46730.38457 2333838.835
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 385525.6712 12938800.43
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 5841.29733 1715424.467
Nitzschia palea var. debilis (Kützing) Grunow 26285.83801 4226780.831
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 5841.29733 3188488.305
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 17523.892 1288910.848
Simonsenia delognei (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot 11682.59467 650970.7705
Skeletonema potamos (Weber) Hasle 146032.451 6976572.595
Stephanodiscus medius Hĺkansson 5841.29733 1407308.508
Thalassiosira pseudonana Hasle et Heimdal 17523.892 788777.2096
Cyanophyta
Homoeothrix janthina (Bornet et Flahault) Starmach 200264.7043 1575261.229
Phormidium tenue (Agardh ex Gomont) Anagnostidis & Komárek 235605.5345 40410233.48
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 35340.83017 71771462.9


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