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ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN


05549850       FLINT CREEK NEAR FOX RIVER GROVE, IL

 

LOCATION.-- Lat 42°12'40", long 88°10'23" (NAD of 1927), in NE1/4NW1/4 sec.15, T.43 N., R.9 E., Lake County, Hydrologic Unit 07120006, on left bank at upstream side of bridge on Kelsey Road, 2.5 mi northeast of Fox River Grove, and at mile 1.1.

 

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 37.0 mi2.

 

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

 

DISCHARGE: October 1989 to September 1996.

 

STAGE: Water years 1994-1996.

 

PARTIAL RECORD: Annual maximum, water years 1962 to 1976; Miscellaneous discharge measurements, water year 2000.

SURFACE-WATER QUALITY

 

MISCELLANEOUS: Water year 2000; contaminants in streambed sediments, water year 2000.

BIOLOGICAL

 

BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 2000.

 

FISH: Water year 2001.

 

HABITAT: Water year 2000.

 

REVISED RECORDS.-- WDR IL-77-1: 1972-76(M).

 

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 738.00 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Oct. 1, 1989, crest-stage gage at datum 3.44 ft higher.

 

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 690 ft3/s, May 21, 1996, gage height, 5.88 ft; minimum discharge, 1.1 ft3/s, Sept. 19-21, Oct. 30,31, 1994.

 

EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Flood of April 1960 reached a stage of 6.36 ft, present datum, discharge, 492 ft3/s.

 

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.--Fish community samples were collected as part of the National Water-Quality Assessment program (NAWQA) in the upper Illinois River Basin. Collections were made with a single pass of the entire reach with a barge or a backpack electroshocker with supplementary seine hauls and kicks. Fishes were identified by C. A. Taylor, Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign. Reach A begins 47 feet upstream of Kelsey Road and continues upstream for 492 feet.



FISH
Order
Family Number
Scientific name Common name
individuals

  Reach A
7/11/2001
 

Cypriniformes
Catostomidae
Catostomus commersoniwhite sucker5
Cyprinidae
Cyprinella spilopteraspotfin shiner82
Luxilus cornutuscommon shiner1
Notropis hudsoniusspottail shiner1
Pimephales notatusbluntnose minnow36
Pimephales promelasfathead minnow7
Perciformes
Centrarchidae
Lepomis cyanellusgreen sunfish5
Lepomis macrochirusbluegill15
Micropterus salmoideslargemouth bass2
Percidae
Percina caprodeslogperch2
Percina maculatablackside darter1
Salmoniformes
Esocidae
Esox americanus vermiculatusgrass pickerel3
Siluriformes
Ictaluridae
Ameiurus natalisyellow bullhead1
Ictalurus punctatuschannel catfish22
Noturus gyrinustadpole madtom1
Pylodictis olivarisflathead catfish1


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Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

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