LOCATION.-- Lat 41°25'47", long 88°05'46" (NAD of 1927), in SW╝ SW╝ NW╝ sec.16, T.34N., R.10E., Will County, Hydrologic Unit 07120004, 82 feet upstream of Manhattan Road Bridge.

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 43.50 mi▓.

PERIOD OF RECORD.--

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE

PARTIAL RECORD: 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.

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 82 feet upstream of Manhattan Road and continues upstream for 984 feet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data