Observation

North Branch Chicago River at Edgebrook Woods

North Branch Chicago River

River or stream

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April 11, 2024 at 3:30 PM

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Weather observations

  • Current weather

    Community scientist interpretation

    • Cloudy
    • Rainy

  • Weather in the past 24hrs

    Community scientist interpretation

    • Sunny

Chemistry tests

  • Chloride

    ppm

    Unspecified equipment (chloride)

    195

  • Air temperature

    °C

    Unspecified equipment (air temperature)

    13.3

Recent photos

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Notes

Certainly no snow for a while so no salting the roadways. And very little snow all winter. River still a little high from lots of recent rain, but much lower than it was. Seems like that would have washed out a lot of street residue. So still surprised how high the chloride level is.

Location description
41.990 N, 87.772 W At Peterson (6000N) and Menard (5800 W)