Dataset

Winter Chloride Watch

Dataset by National Great Rivers

Dataset summary

Observations

  • 15 November 2021

    Watkins Creek at Coal Bank Road by Claire Schosser

    saw a frog on site

  • 14 November 2021

    Edgewood Walk by Hayley Elise Hawkinson

    Just after the first snows of the season, no accumulation. The water is warmer than the air.

  • 10 November 2021

    Ridgemoor Park by Stephanie Rens-Domiano

    Water movement slow.

  • 10 November 2021

    Bemis Woods Kayak Launch by Stephanie Rens-Domiano

    2 Canadian Geese, nine male mallard ducks and 7 female Mallard ducks

  • 10 November 2021

    Creekside Park by Stephanie Rens-Domiano

    Saw 1 white breasted nuthatch, 1 redwing blackbird, 2 robins, 4 mourning doves, 2 squirrels

  • 7 November 2021

    River Bend Forest Preserve site by Bruce M Colravy

    The chloride ppm(mg/L) value is entered as 33 because that is the lowest value on the conversion card. The true value is a little less. Common gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis) observed on the trail to the site. Needed professional help identifying, because it was a stripeless morph and it had lateral red interscale pigment that is an occasional trait.

  • 7 November 2021

    Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve by Bruce M Colravy

    The chloride ppm(mg/L) value is entered as 33 because that is the lowest value on the conversion card. The true value is a little less.

  • 7 November 2021

    Sangamon River Forest Preserve site by Bruce M Colravy

    The chloride ppm(mg/L) value is entered as 33 because that is the lowest value on the conversion card. The true value is a little less.

  • 5 November 2021

    Creve Coeur Creek at Water Works Road by Steve McCarthy

    Flow estimated; flow velocity 1.7 ft / sec: flow moderate for this site.

  • 4 November 2021

    Lily Cache Creek by Water Rangers

    Creek was broad due to significant rainfall in previous week. A pair of mallards observed downstream by log jam. Sample was obtained 2m from south bank, 3 m upstream from a large boulder.

  • 4 November 2021

    Lily Cache Creek by Water Rangers

    Creek was wide but not deep; fast flow over riffles. Sample taken about 1/3 across stream from south bank, at upstream where study site begins (just after a bend); taken in run just as it becomes riffle.

  • 28 March 2021

    Bonnhomme Creek downstream of Pond Road by Danelle Haake

  • 28 March 2021

    Bonnhomme Creek upstream of Pond Road by Danelle Haake