COOPERATION

The USGS, State, and local agencies in Illinois have had cooperative agreements for the collection of water-resources records since 1930. Organizations that assisted in collecting data for the current water year through cooperative agreements with the USGS are:

Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Joel Brunsvold, Director.

Office of Water Resources, Gary Clark, Director.

Illinois State Water Survey, Derek Winstanley, Chief.

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas P. Scott, Director.

Bloomington and Normal Water Reclamation District, J.M. Callahan, Executive Director.

Danville Sanitary District, P.C. Morgan, Director.

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Richard Lanyon, Director of Research and Development.

Forest Preserve District of Champaign County, Jan Plotner, Executive Director.

Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Allan Mellis, Director of Planning and Development.

Forest Preserve District of Du Page County, R.A. Hill, Project Engineer.

Du Page County,  Stormwater Management Division, A.J. Charlton, Director.

Kane County Department of Environmental Management, Tim Harbaugh, Director.

Lake County, Peter Kolb, Public Works Department.

Lake County Stormwater Management Commission, W.S. Miller, Executive Director.

Vermilion County Conservation District, K.F. Konsis, Executive Director.

Winnebago County, J.A. Vanderwerff, Sr, County Engineer, County Highway Department.

Winnebago County Sheriff Office, D.F. Lolli, Chief of Sheriff's Emergency Response Team.

City of Champaign, Eleanor Blackmon, City Engineer. 

City of De Kalb, J.C. Maurer, Assistant City Engineer.

City of Decatur,  S.P. Swanson, Director of Engineering & Infrastructure.

City of Joliet, Dale Bottino, Emergency Management Agency Coordinator.

City of Monticello, Floyd Allsop, Superintendent of City Services.

City of Peru, J.E. Prazen, Consultant.

City of Springfield, Ted Meckes, Superintendent of Water Purification.

City of Urbana, W.R. Gray, Public Works Director.

Village of Oak Brook, D.L. Durfey, Jr., Village Engineer.

University of Illinois, Jack Dempsey, Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs.

 

The following Federal agencies assisted in the data-collection program by providing funds or services: Corps of Engineers, Chicago, IL District,, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Branch, Susanne Davis, Chief.
Corps of Engineers, Louisville, KY  District, Water Management Section, Bill Byron, Chief.
Corps of Engineers, Rock Island, IL  District, Water Control Section, Jim Stiman, Chief.
Corps of Engineers, St. Louis, MO District, Water Control Management Section, Don Coleman, Chief.
Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Research Division, Barry Lesht, Acting Director.
USEPA Environmental Sciences Division, Landscape Ecology Branch, Ann Pitchford, Chief.



Table of Contents

Introduction

Station Description

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data