05520500 DATA: Discharge Tables, 2004

Station list Available data
ILLINOIS RIVER BASIN

05520500 KANKAKEE RIVER AT MOMENCE, IL


LOCATION.-- Lat 41°09'36", long 87°40'07" (NAD of 1927), in SW1/4NE1/4 sec.24, T.31 N., R.13 E., Kankakee County, Hydrologic Unit 07120001, on right bank at end of Hill Street in Momence, 0.2 mi downstream from bridge on State Highways 1 and 17, 1.2 mi upstream from Tower Creek, and at mile 47.9.

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 2,294 mi², of which 201 mi² probably is noncontributing.

PERIOD OF RECORD.--
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE
	DISCHARGE: February to December 1905, February to July 1906, December 1914 to current year.
	STAGE: Water years 1994 to current year.
SURFACE-WATER QUALITY
	CHEMICAL: Water years 1975-1991 and 1999 to current. Additional chemical data for water years 1959-72 are published in Water-Resources Investigations 78-23 and 79-24 as site F 02.
	SEDIMENT: October 1978-September 1981, January 1993-December 1995.
	MISCELLANEOUS: Contaminants in streambed sediments, August 1998; Contaminants in fish tissue, August 1998.
BIOLOGICAL
	ALGAE: Pigment and biomass, Water years 1989 and 1990.
	BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATES: Water year 1999.
	FISH: Water year 1999.
	HABITAT: Water year 1999.

REVISED RECORDS.-- WSP 1238: 1916, 1930. WSP 1308: 1915(M), 1917(M), 1919(M), 1922(M), 1926(M), 1934-35(M), 1938(M). WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area.

GAGE.-- Water-stage recorder, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter. Datum of gage is 609.18 ft above NGVD of 1929. Prior to Aug. 1, 1938, nonrecording gage at site 0.2 mi upstream at datum 1.00 ft higher. Aug. 1, 1938, to Aug. 8, 1969, water-stage recorder at present site at datum 1.00 ft higher.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD.--
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 16,000 ft³/s, Mar. 6, 1979, gage height, 10.51 ft, ice jam; minimum, 243 ft³/s, Aug. 7, 1988.
SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS: Maximum daily, 2,620 mg/L, June 9, 1981; minimum daily, 4 mg/L, Feb. 22, Apr. 30, May 3, 4, 1993.
SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS: Maximum daily, 30,600 tons, May 30, 1981; minimum daily, 23 tons, Nov. 23, 1980.

REMARKS FOR CURRENT YEAR.-- Records good except those for estimated daily discharges, which are poor.

Discharge, cubic feet per second, WATER YEAR OCTOBER 2003 TO SEPTEMBER 2004 DAILY MEAN VALUES
DAY	OCT	NOV	DEC	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP

1	859	1120	3500	2780	e920	2610	3120	1570	3140	1460	939	4630
2	847	1070	3230	2910	e890	2790	3000	1600	3140	1310	888	4550
3	833	1050	2940	3000	e870	2870	2870	1540	3180	1230	851	4440
4	846	1080	2690	3040	e840	3000	2720	1510	3230	1230	986	4330
5	846	1150	2550	2990	e820	4440	2550	1490	3260	1210	1070	4040

6	843	1210	2470	2790	e840	4860	2420	1440	3260	1190	1110	3730
7	809	1270	2450	2820	e890	4470	2330	1480	3170	1150	1090	3500
8	805	1360	2440	2080	e940	4340	2250	1520	2910	1130	993	3380
9	800	1390	2440	2090	e970	4240	2170	1470	2500	1170	923	3290
10	776	1390	2650	2420	e900	4190	2120	1440	2210	1330	875	3100

11	770	1360	3080	2370	e900	4130	2060	1480	2310	1250	833	2830
12	762	1350	2940	2440	e980	4000	2010	1540	5610	1130	803	2520
13	732	1330	2900	2200	e1060	3820	1930	1720	6760	1070	778	2220
14	774	1320	2880	2020	e970	3590	1900	1780	5680	1000	769	2010
15	841	1280	2850	1940	e910	3360	1860	1980	5430	933	754	1830

16	938	1250	2740	1890	e880	3160	1830	2060	4970	875	751	1740
17	998	1230	2610	1840	e880	3000	1800	2160	4690	958	745	1700
18	1050	1460	2460	1800	e880	2870	1760	2250	4520	983	837	1640
19	1070	2420	2330	1850	e1000	2740	1730	2260	4420	917	1240	1570
20	1060	2340	2210	1840	e1130	2620	1740	2170	4370	851	1770	1520

21	1030	2430	2110	1710	e1300	2530	1770	2030	4320	855	2060	1480
22	979	2580	2090	1550	e1900	2450	1750	1920	4240	965	2110	1440
23	958	2780	2070	1340	2300	2360	1690	1840	3990	1500	2020	1380
24	936	3380	2070	1190	2450	2310	1640	1810	3610	1790	1870	1350
25	957	3580	2090	e1130	2510	2290	1670	2000	3190	1890	2020	1280

26	1000	3600	2230	e1100	2560	2650	1690	2060	2760	1950	3450	1240
27	1040	3610	2390	e1060	2600	3160	1630	2050	2400	1850	3860	1230
28	1080	3620	2540	e1020	2590	3000	1570	1980	2110	1510	4080	1170
29	1090	3620	2590	e1000	2590	3180	1550	1810	1890	1240	4630	1120
30	1130	3620	2640	e970	---	3180	1510	1800	1650	1110	4790	1080

31	1130	---	2690	e950	---	3150	---	2880	---	998	4690	---

TOTAL	28589	60250	79870	60130	39270	101360	60640	56640	108920	38035	54585	71340
MEAN	922	2008	2576	1940	1354	3270	2021	1827	3631	1227	1761	2378
MAX	1130	3620	3500	3040	2600	4860	3120	2880	6760	1950	4790	4630
MIN	732	1050	2070	950	820	2290	1510	1440	1650	851	745	1080
CFSM	0.40	0.88	1.12	0.85	0.59	1.43	0.88	0.80	1.58	0.53	0.77	1.04
IN.	0.46	0.98	1.30	0.98	0.64	1.64	0.98	0.92	1.77	0.62	0.89	1.16

e Estimated

STATISTICS OF MONTHLY MEAN DATA FOR WATER YEARS 1905 - 2004, BY WATER YEAR (WY)
MEAN	1200	1557	1983	2198	2488	3262	3461	2908	2228	1519	1095	992
MAX	4739	4731	6759	6250	5136	7485	7438	5936	5966	4471	3530	4014
(WY)	1994	1991	1928	1991	1968	1982	1950	1943	1997	1996	1996	1993
MIN	429	511	547	404	498	1001	862	883	640	434	378	369
(WY)	1964	1965	1964	1918	1963	1957	1915	1934	1934	1988	1988	1919

SUMMARY STATISTICS	FOR 2003 CALENDAR YEAR		FOR 2004 WATER YEAR		WATER YEARS 1905 - 2004
ANNUAL TOTAL	677214		759629
ANNUAL MEAN	1855		2075		2082
HIGHEST ANNUAL MEAN					3743	1991
LOWEST ANNUAL MEAN					857	1964
HIGHEST DAILY MEAN	7010	Jul 23	6760	Jun 13	14800	Mar 7 1979
LOWEST DAILY MEAN	567	Aug 28	732	Oct 13	248	Aug 7 1988
ANNUAL SEVEN-DAY MINIMUM	622	Aug 24	774	Oct 8	271	Aug 3 1988
MAXIMUM PEAK FLOW			7250 A	Jun 12	16000 B	Mar 6 1979
MAXIMUM PEAK STAGE			5.67 C	Jan 27	10.51 C	Mar 6 1979
INSTANTANEOUS LOW FLOW			729	Oct 13,14	243	Aug 7 1988
ANNUAL RUNOFF (CFSM)	0.809		0.905		0.907
ANNUAL RUNOFF (INCHES)	10.98		12.32		12.33
10 PERCENT EXCEEDS	3730		3610		4340
50 PERCENT EXCEEDS	1300		1850		1590
90 PERCENT EXCEEDS	837		889		661

	A - Gage height, 4.65 ft.
	B - Estimated due to backwater from ice.
	C - Ice jam.