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Date	Notes
31 January 2025 Blackwell Forest Preserve Silver Lake	Ken List 5 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
31 January 2025 West Branch DuPage River	Ken List 4 parameters tested ▾ air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
31 January 2025 Springbrook Creek Wetland Park	Lauren Lavezzi 5 parameters tested ▾ air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
31 January 2025 Timber Trails Park pond	Michelle Besch Beginning to drizzle. Top inch or two was liquid, however, underneath is still has some ice. Areas with more ice on… 5 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Lippold Park - West Entrance	Far Syed Every time I tried to take a sample, the water was icy, so now I managed to get a water sample, since there was some… 4 parameters tested ▾ ice on, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Kenyon Woods Forest Preserve	Michelle Besch Collection site was frozen. Unable to get a sample. Rare warm day, however still frozen thick enough unable to break. 4 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Creek under Fairmount Ave, east side of bridge	Tom Prince The temperatures have been warm this week so the creek thawed just enough to get a reading. 5 parameters tested ▾ chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Lake Run at Nelson Lake in Dick Young Forest Preserve	Maureen Mrenna Stream iced over with thick ice. Couldn’t break through. Got sample from surface melt on puddles on top of ice 5 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description
30 January 2025 DuPage River at Knoch Knolls Canoe/Kayak Launch	Alice Porfiropoulos 5 parameters tested ▾ air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Boone Creek at Whispering Oaks Park	Lee Ekstrom Working at getting my images to sync. 7 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Saint Joseph Creek	Robert Swirsky Unable to collect a sample because of solid ice. 6 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Hickory Creek	Jeanne Golec 7 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, conductivity, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs, water temperature
30 January 2025 Kishwaukee River at Route 23	Scott Kuykendall Route 23 bridge crossing over the main stem of the Kishwaukee River. Used this location with flowing water as an… 5 parameters tested ▾ air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Kishwaukee River and Deerpass Road	Scott Kuykendall Deerpass Road bridge crossing over the main stem of the Kishwaukee River. Used this location with flowing water as an… 5 parameters tested ▾ air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 Bourbonnais Creek Upstream	ONU Earth & Space Sciences River Keepers Most snow has melted, lots of salt on ground, most of the creek is frozen, some areas are completely thawed. Quantab… 6 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 West Branch DuPage River	Janet Knight 6 parameters tested ▾ ice on, chloride, current weather, current weather description, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Dixie Creek at Gaslight Dr	Brad Andresen Ice covered, found open flowing water just inside the culvert opening. 6 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Ratt Creek at Hanson Rd	Brad Andresen Chloride level grater than 641ppm, but this was the limit of the test strip scale used for this test 6 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs, weather in the past 24hrs description
30 January 2025 Woods Creek at Brookside Pedestrian Bridge	Brad Andresen 5 parameters tested ▾ ice on, air temperature, chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs
30 January 2025 DuPage River at Hammel Woods	Kaitlin Soto 3 parameters tested ▾ chloride, current weather, weather in the past 24hrs

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