LOCATION.-- Lat 41°49'20", long 88°19'29" (NAD of 1927), in NE╝ NE╝ sec.33, T.39N., R.8E., Kane County, Hydrologic Unit 07120007, 164 feet downstream of first low-head dam upstream of Hwy 31.

DRAINAGE AREA.-- 31.00 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 341 feet upstream of the first low-head dam upstream of Highway 31 and continues upstream for 984 feet.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Station Descriptions

Surface-Water Data

Ground-Water Data

Meteorological Data

Biological Data