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Water-Year Summary for Site 05594000

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Water year 2023: 2022-10-01 to 2023-09-30
 
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USGS Water-Year Summary 2023
05594000 SHOAL CREEK NEAR BREESE, IL
LOCATION - Lat 38°36'35", long 89°29'41" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in SW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec.13, T.2 N., R.4 W., Clinton County, IL, Hydrologic Unit 07140203, on right bank at upstream side of bridge on Old U.S. Highway 50, 0.4 mile upstream from railroad bridge, 1.7 miles east of Breese, 7 miles upstream from Beaver Creek, and at mile 21.3.
DRAINAGE AREA - 735 mi². (revised).
REVISIONS HISTORY - WDR IL-75-1: Drainage area.
SURFACE-WATER RECORDS
PERIOD OF RECORD -
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE
  DISCHARGE: November 1909 to December 1912, August to December 1914,
     October 1945 to current.
  STAGE: Water years 1994 to current.
SURFACE-WATER QUALITY
  CHEMICAL: Water years 1979-91.
  MISCELLANEOUS: Water Years 1998 and 2002.
GAGE - Water-stage recorder, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers satellite telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 413.49 ft above NAVD of 1988. Prior to Dec. 8, 1914, chain gage at site 0.4 mi downstream at different datum. Oct. 1, 1945, to Oct. 10, 1968, nonrecording gage at present site and datum.
REMARKS - Prior to October 2006, diversion upstream from gage for municipal supply of Breese. Accuracy of records is discussed in the annual Station Analysis archived at the USGS IL Water Science Center.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD - SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Flood of May 19, 1943, reached a stage of 25.6 ft, present site and datum, discharge, 52,000 ft³/s on basis of contracted opening measurement of peak flow.
EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE: Maximum discharge, 37,300 ft³/s, Dec. 29, 2015, gage height, 24.82 ft; no flow for many days in 1954-56, and 1988.