Dataset

Winter Chloride Watch

Dataset summary

Observations

  • 9 January 2025

    Turnmill Pond - Smythe Settlement by Steve Slivka

    About 3 inches of ice on pond.

  • 9 January 2025

    Army Trail West Pond - Smythe Settlement by Steve Slivka

    About 3 inches ice cover.

  • 9 January 2025

    Trinity South Pond - Smythe Settlement by Steve Slivka

    About 3 inches of ice on pond

  • 9 January 2025

    Otter Creek by Annette Marshall

    Partial ice coverage. Chloride <32 mg/L

  • 8 January 2025

    Brainard's Branch, Grand Ave bridge between 19th and 20th Sts by Pamela Moriearty

    6" snowfall 1/6 - 1/7/25. max temp 1/6 - 1/8 = -3C. Roads salted 1/7/25

  • 8 January 2025

    Kickapoo Creek at Leslie Rutherford Park by Robert Rowe

  • 8 January 2025

    Kickapoo Creek Park, 2000 N. Jefferson St., Lincoln, IL pedestrian bridge on park road by Pamela Moriearty

    6" snowfall 1/6 - 1/7/25. max temp 1/6 - 1/8 = -3C. Roads salted 1/7/25

  • 7 January 2025

    Bourbonnais Creek Upstream by ONU Earth & Space Sciences River Keepers

    Quantab units maxed out; about 9.3. ppm higher than 619.

  • 7 January 2025

    Woods Creek at Brookside Pedestrian Bridge by Brad Andresen

  • 7 January 2025

    Ratt Creek at Hanson Rd by Brad Andresen

    chloride greater than 641ppm. New beaver activity on site. Sample taken just downstream of beaver dam.

  • 7 January 2025

    Fabyan Forest Preserve by Maureen Huey

    Photo added of back of test strip to better see the reading on the scale.

  • 7 January 2025

    Harms Woods/Glenview Woods by Mac Austin

    Still many ducks.

  • 6 January 2025

    Dry Run Creek in Lower Bradley Park by Robert Rowe

    cold weather with light snow fall. Roads in city have been treated with brine on previous day

  • 4 January 2025

    Timber Ridge Forest Preserve by Andy Culbertson

    Most of the creek was flowing. More ice than last time covered the side areas, even some on the main body of the creek. There was some new driftwood in the middle of the creek with a couple of fishing lines attached.

  • 4 January 2025

    Salt Creek S Elmhurst canoe launch by Andrea Studzinski