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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05531500       SALT CREEK AT WESTERN SPRINGS, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°49'33", long 87°54'01" (NAD of 1983), in NE1/4SE1/4 sec.31, T.39 N., R.12 E., Cook County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, on left pier at upstream side of bridge on Wolf Road, in Cook County Forest Preserve, 0.5 mi north of Western Springs, and at mile 8.8.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 115 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1945 to current year.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

CHEMICAL: Water years 1978-91 and 1999 to current year.

 

DISSOLVED OXYGEN: Water years 2001-2003.
PH: Water years 2001-2003.

 

SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE: Water years 2001-2003.

 

TURBIDITY: Water years 2001-2003.

 

WATER TEMPERATURE: Water years 2001-2003.

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Contaminants in streambed sediments, August 1998; contaminants in fish tissue, August 1998.

BIOLOGICAL

 

ALGAE: Water years 1989-90, 1999, and 2002-05.

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water years 1999 and 2002-05.

 

FISH: Water years 1999-2000 and 2002-05.

 

HABITAT: Water years 1999-2000 and 2002-05.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 1915: Drainage area. WRD IL-87-2: Drainage area. WRD IL-97-2: July 21 - Sept. 26, 1996.

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 624.93 ft above NGVD of 1929 (624.64 ft NAVD 1988). Prior to July 26, 1946, nonrecording gage at same site and datum.

 

REMARKS.-- Occasional regulation by sewage treatment plants upstream from station. Since May 28, 1996, some flow temporarily diverted for flood control to Elmhurst Quarry Flood Control Reservoir 12.3 miles upstream from gage.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 3,540 ft3/s, Aug. 17, 1987, gage height, 10.54 ft; minimum, no flow, May 27, 1998, due to bridge construction.

 

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, lat 41°49'41.60", long 87°54'28.40", is located 187 ft upstream of the walking bridge (0.63 mi upstream from gage) in the Bemis Woods west of Wolf Road and north of Ogden Avenue; it continues upstream for 984 ft. Reach B is 1663 ft upstream of walking bridge, and continues upstream for 948 ft. Reach C is located 328 ft downstream of the walking bridge and continues downstream 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
8/13/2003
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 5023.48152 273378.6326
Achnanthidium minutissimum (Kützing) Czarnecki 1255.8327 50436.98799
Amphora montana Krasske 1883.82441 405085.9511
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 9419.12204 936844.8097
Amphora veneta Kützing 627.91635 306785.9273
Aulacoseira ambigua (Grunow) Simonsen 2511.74076 900787.6277
Aulacoseira granulata (Ehrenberg) Simonsen 627.91635 236761.8965
Bacillaria paradoxa Gmelin 627.91635 734595.3681
Caloneis silicula (Ehrenberg) Cleve 627.91635 861515.2272
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 19466.16044 20642132.66
Ctenophora pulchella (Ralfs ex Kützing) Williams et Round 1255.8327 10826533.74
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 28885.28248 24096212.65
Cyclotella stelligera (Cleve et Grunow) Van Heurck 1255.8327 304387.3827
Fallacia omissa (Hustedt) Mann 1255.8327 219397.2059
Gyrosigma scalproides (Rabenhorst) Cleve 627.91635 920071.1954
Hippodonta capitata (Ehrenberg) Lange-Bertalot, Metzeltin et Witkowski 2511.74076 803938.8466
Karayevia clevei (Grunow) Kingston 1255.8327 193159.414
Kolbesia ploenensis (Hustedt) Kingston 3767.64882 1134062.294
Melosira varians Agardh 3767.64882 18589867.65
Navicula antonii Lange-Bertalot 1255.8327 178184.5355
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 1255.8327 704343.9065
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 1255.8327 306559.732
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 16954.41968 7365522.415
Navicula germainii Wallace 10674.95475 4431943.63
Navicula gregaria Donkin 52119.09173 13803322.87
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 2511.74076 108816.1666
Navicula lanceolata (Agardh) Ehrenberg 3767.64882 5637788.773
Navicula minima Grunow 2511.74076 101814.5735
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 6279.38958 3158417.706
Navicula rhynchocephala Kützing 1883.82441 1347996.545
Navicula rostellata Kützing 2511.74076 1962150.685
Navicula salinarum Grunow 3139.65711 2784564.281
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 3767.64882 241243.0797
Navicula submuralis Hustedt 1255.8327 46921.56237
Navicula tenelloides Hustedt 3767.64882 532809.5624
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 1255.8327 1178226.656
Navicula veneta Kützing 8791.13034 1451226.622
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 1255.8327 246090.366
Nitzschia angustata (Smith) Grunow 1255.8327 6605211.688
Nitzschia archibaldii Lange-Bertalot 1255.8327 77693.72602
Nitzschia desertorum Hustedt 1255.8327 117526.5871
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 1883.82441 472845.958
Nitzschia frustulum (Kützing) Grunow 7535.29763 431896.591
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 5023.48152 1968172.495
Nitzschia incognita Legler et Krasske 1255.8327 106745.7798
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 18838.24408 567898.2339
Nitzschia linearis (Agardh ex Smith) Smith 627.91635 1714299.338
Nitzschia microcephala Grunow 1255.8327 120477.6088
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 35164.67206 9337981.374
Nitzschia reversa Smith 2511.74076 1465777.819
Nitzschia sigmoidea (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1255.8327 3702069.617
Pinnularia microstauron (Ehrenberg) Cleve 1255.8327 1513037.208
Planothidium delicatulum (Kützing) Round et Bukhtiyarova 5023.48152 1546372.058
Planothidium frequentissimum (Lange-Bertalot) Lange-Bertalot 6279.38958 466906.9961
Planothidium rostratum (Østrup) Lange-Bertalot 2511.74076 308153.029
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 1883.82441 320146.9771
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 3767.64882 1527634.649
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 1255.8327 598967.3745
Staurosira construens var. venter (Ehrenberg) Hamilton 10047.03839 902435.9296
Stephanodiscus hantzschii Grunow 12558.77915 4041130.268
Stephanodiscus minutulus (Kützing) Cleve et Möller 22605.8929 6567734.375
Surirella minuta Brébisson 2511.74076 2099586.727
Synedra parasitica var. subconstricta (Grunow) Hustedt 1255.8327 124327.4377
Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1255.8327 6994220.817
Thalassiosira weissflogii (Grunow) Fryxell et Hasle 627.91635 644915.9661
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 10674.95475 4030299.283
Tryblionella levidensis Smith 1255.8327 14710824.29
Cyanophyta
Unknown Cyanophyte filament 452117.858 1279502.521
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
8/13/2003
Chlorophyta
Stigeoclonium sp. 38177.9483 16221825.75
Chrysophyta
Achnanthes conspicua Mayer 834.25816 45400.45683
Amphora ovalis (Kützing) Kützing 834.25816 4455595.633
Amphora pediculus (Kützing) Grunow 834.25816 82976.9937
Cocconeis placentula var. lineata (Ehrenberg) Van Heurck 36707.38888 38924922.73
Craticula molestiformis (Hustedt) Lange-Bertalot 2085.64647 113193.0605
Cyclostephanos tholiformis Stoermer, Håkansson et Theriot 417.12802 74270.73301
Cyclotella meneghiniana Kützing 4171.29294 3479708.455
Gomphonema affine Kützing 834.25816 1046505.585
Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing 417.12802 103980.3526
Gomphonema parvulum var. saprophilum Hustedt 2502.77661 3258615.148
Kolbesia ploenensis (Hustedt) Kingston 2502.77661 753335.7599
Luticola nivalis (Ehrenberg) Mann 834.25816 6257770.483
Mayamaea atomus (Kützing) Lange-Bertalot 1668.51633 53826.17387
Melosira varians Agardh 417.12802 2058141.585
Navicula antonii Lange-Bertalot 1668.51633 236738.3855
Navicula arvensis Hustedt 834.25816 55500.8701
Navicula capitatoradiata Germain 834.25816 467900.4235
Navicula cryptotenella Lange-Bertalot ex Krammer et Lange-Bertalot 10011.10644 2443798.524
Navicula erifuga Lange-Bertalot 3337.03477 1449710.748
Navicula germainii Wallace 5422.68124 2251346.087
Navicula gregaria Donkin 4588.42308 1215207.003
Navicula ingenua Hustedt 4171.29294 180712.9598
Navicula lanceolata (Agardh) Ehrenberg 834.25816 1248357.141
Navicula minima Grunow 2919.90463 118359.6849
Navicula recens Lange-Bertalot 75083.29833 37765520.98
Navicula rostellata Kützing 834.25816 651715.4368
Navicula subminuscula Manguin 2919.90463 186961.9012
Navicula submuralis Hustedt 3337.03477 124681.3249
Navicula symmetrica Patrick 3337.03477 1635480.315
Navicula tripunctata (Müller) Bory 1668.51633 1565407.882
Navicula trivialis Lange-Bertalot 834.25816 659635.1349
Navicula veneta Kützing 10011.10644 1652618.45
Nitzschia amphibia Grunow 1668.51633 326958.9908
Nitzschia archibaldii Lange-Bertalot 834.25816 51612.46796
Nitzschia dissipata (Kützing) Grunow 834.25816 209401.4701
Nitzschia fonticola Grunow 834.25816 79714.31738
Nitzschia gracilis Hantzsch ex Rabenhorst 2502.77661 980574.1433
Nitzschia inconspicua Grunow 10428.23447 314369.8483
Nitzschia palea (Kützing) Smith 17102.30614 4541518.712
Nitzschia perminuta (Grunow) Peragallo 834.25816 80956.19937
Nitzschia reversa Smith 834.25816 486848.4561
Nitzschia sigmoidea (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 417.12802 1229651.823
Nitzschia solita Hustedt 834.25816 161679.9545
Nitzschia subacicularis Hustedt 834.25816 260705.6761
Planothidium frequentissimum (Lange-Bertalot) Lange-Bertalot 1668.51633 124063.3244
Planothidium rostratum (Østrup) Lange-Bertalot 1668.51633 204702.0012
Pleurosira laevis (Ehrenberg) Compère 417.12802 129760528.3
Reimeria sinuata (Gregory) Kociolek et Stoermer 834.25816 141778.1976
Rhoicosphenia abbreviata (Agardh) Lange-Bertalot 2085.64647 845648.2983
Sellaphora pupula (Kützing) Meresckowsky 1251.38831 596847.6261
Sellaphora seminulum (Grunow) Mann 11679.62277 42493850.47
Stephanodiscus minutulus (Kützing) Cleve et Möller 834.25816 242378.6595
Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1251.38831 6969468.235
Thalassiosira bramaputrae (Ehrenberg) Håkansson 834.25816 1140549.613
Thalassiosira weissflogii (Grunow) Fryxell et Hasle 417.12802 428420.9513
Tryblionella apiculata Gregory 834.25816 314971.8343
Tryblionella levidensis Smith 834.25816 9772500.125
Cyanophyta
Anabaena sp. 12725.98277 623852.9941
Merismopedia sp. 23330.96841 583274.2102
Phormidium autumnale (CA Agardh) Gomont 135743.8162 7238009.217
Unknown Cyanophyte filament 25451.96554 72029.56814
Rhodophyta
Unknown Rhodophyte Florideophycidae (chantransia) 2120.99713 1461631.127


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