05533400 DATA: Precipitation Tables, 2000

Station list Available data
ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN

05533400 SAWMILL CREEK NEAR LEMONT, IL

LOCATION.-- Lat 41°42'28", long 87°57'47", in NE1/4SW1/4 sec.10, T.37 N., R.11 E., Du Page County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, on concrete abutment on right bank, 50 ft upstream from bridge on Bluff Road at south edge of Argonne National Laboratory, 2.5 mi northeast of Lemont, and at mile 1.

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 13.0 mi²

PERIOD OF RECORD.--
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

DISCHARGE: December 1985 to current year.

STAGE: Water years 1994-2000.

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1961-79.

PRECIPITATION: April 1986 to current year.

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-77-1: 1961-76(M).

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, rain gage, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 630.00 ft above sea level. Oct. 11, 1961, to Sept. 30, 1976, crest-stage gage on bridge 50 ft downstream at datum 11.22 ft higher.

REMARKS.-- For precipitation records, snowfall-affected data can result during cold weather when snow fills the rain-gage funnel and then melts as temperatures rise. Snowfall-affected data are subject to appreciable errors.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 3,070 ft³/s, July 18, 1996, gage height, 17.53 ft; no flow at times in most years.
PRECIPITATION: Maximum, 6.17 in., July 17, 1996 but may have been greater during periods of missing record.

EXTREMES FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Maximum, 2.86 in., July 10, 2000.

PRECIPITATION, TOTAL, INCHES, WATER YEAR OCTOBER 1999 TO SEPTEMBER 2000 DAILY SUM VALUES
DAY	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP
1	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.38	0.01	0.00	0.12	0.00
2	.06	.00	.00	.01	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.77	.09	.00
3	.73	.00	.41	.15	s.02	.00	.02	.00	.00	.44	.00	.00
4	.00	.00	.93	.00	s.01	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
5	.00	.00	.80	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.01	.00	.43	.00
6	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.98	.00
7	.00	.00	.00	.00	s.08	.00	.34	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
8	.02	.00	.00	.09	.00	.02	.13	e1.20	.00	.00	.00	.02
9	.00	.00	.03	.19	s.01	.00	.00	e.80	.00	.00	.00	.00
10	.00	.00	.00	.15	.00	.00	.14	.00	e.05	2.86	.00	.64
11	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	e.22	e1.23	.00	.00	2.55
12	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.01	.00	e.24	e.52	.00	.00	.08
13	.03	.00	.00	.00	.00	.05	.00	.00	e.40	.02	.00	.00
14	.00	.00	.05	s.02	.00	.01	.00	.00	.64	.00	.00	.33
15	.00	.00	.14	.00	.00	.07	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
16	.09	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	1.01	e.15	.03	.00	.00	.00
17	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	e.03	.00	.00	e1.16	.00
18	.00	.00	s.03	.00	.00	.00	.00	e.57	.00	.03	.00	.00
19	.02	.01	s.08	.00	s.01	.27	.54	e.02	.00	.00	.00	.00
20	.00	.00	.01	.00	.00	.19	2.34	.00	.51	.00	.00	.46
21	.00	.00	.01	s.05	s.42	.00	.40	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00
22	.00	.14	.00	.00	.00	.17	.00	e.19	.00	.00	.00	.47
23	.00	.55	.00	.00	.00	.00	.22	.00	.14	.00	.25	.31
24	.00	.00	.00	.00	.56	.20	.00	.00	1.45	.00	.00	e.26
25	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.02	.00	.00	.00
26	.00	.03	.00	.00	.01	.19	.00	e.04	.00	.00	.00	.00
27	.00	.00	.00	s.01	.00	.02	.00	2.06	.00	.01	.00	.00
28	.00	.01	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.18	.09	.00	.00	.00
29	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.00	.03	.10	.11	.00	.01	.00
30	.00	.00	.00	.00	--	.00	.00	.02	.00	.65	.00	.00
31	.00	--	.00	.00	--	.00	--	.88	--	.49	.00	--