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USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

05580950 SUGAR CREEK NEAR BLOOMINGTON, IL

LOCATION - Lat 40°28'16.31", long 89°01'44.26" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, in NE 1/4 NW 1/4 sec.7, T.23 N., R.2 E., McLean County, IL, Hydrologic Unit 07130009, on left bank at Bloomington-Normal Sanitary District sewage-treatment plant, 250 ft upstream from bridge on Interstate 74, 0.4 mi west of Bloomington, and at mile 48.8.

DRAINAGE AREA - 34.4 mi².

REVISIONS HISTORY - WDR IL-82-2: Drainage area. WDR IL-87-2: 1985.
Revisions: Gage datum was revised to 723.87 ft NAVD88 on January 30, 2023, as determined by a GNSS Level II survey. Gage datum was previously published in error as 725.11 ft NGVD29 from levels.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD -
SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE
DISCHARGE: October 1974 to current.
STAGE: Water years 1994 to current.

GAGE - Water-stage recorder, phone telemeter, and crest-stage gage. Datum of gage is 723.87 ft above NAVD of 1988. Prior to Nov. 4, 1987, 200 ft upstream at same datum.

REMARKS - Effluent from sewage-treatment plant 300 ft. upstream includes publicly supplied water from Lake Bloomington and Lake Evergreen and ground-water sources. Accuracy of records is discussed in the annual Station Analysis archived at the USGS IL Water Science Center.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD -

SURFACE-WATER DISCHARGE AND STAGE:

Maximum Discharge and Corresponding Gage Height: 6,600 ft³/s, Dec. 3, 1982; 14.02 ft, from flood-mark

Maximum Instantaneous Discharge and Corresponding Gage Height: 6,180 ft³/s, Sep. 20, 1986; gage height = NA

Minimum Instantaneous Discharge and Corresponding Gage Height: 0 ft³/s, Dec. 10, 1990*; gage height = NA

Minimum Daily Mean Discharge: 5.25 ft³/s, Jan. 6, 2014; gage height = NA.

Maximum Instantaneous Gage Height and Corresponding Discharge: 12.6 ft, Jul. 10, 2003; 4380 ft³/s

Minimum Instantaneous Gage Height and Corresponding Discharge: 0.44 ft, Apr. 7, 2018*; 1.51 ft³/s

* Multiple occurrences of the same extreme in selected dataset.

Some extreme values in this period occurred at times that had no corresponding value in the related time series.

Extremes date/time determined from un-rounded values