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	Illinois River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Illinois River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 273 miles (439 km) long, in the state of Illinois in the United States.
		The river was important among Native Americans and early French traders as the principal water route connecting the Great Lakes with the Mississippi.
		The Illinois River valley was one of the strongholds of the Illiniwek confederation of Native Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illinois_River (895 words)

	Sangamon County, Illinois - Floodplain Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The major sources of flooding in Sangamon County are the Sangamon River and the South Fork of the Sangamon River.
		In February 1999, Sangamon County finalized the grant-funded purchase of a 56 acre tract of land at the confluence of the South Fork of the Sangamon River and Sugar Creek.
		Sangamon County has also purchased land and structures that were damaged in the flood of May 2002 and will conduct similar restoration activities with the assistance of Friends of the Sangamon Valley, a charitable organization with experience in restoring and protecting ecologically significant land.
	www.co.sangamon.il.us /Floodplain/FloodInformation.htm (1056 words)

	SCHS - The New Eden
		The Sangamon itself is a fine boatable water of the Illinois….All of the waters that enter this beautiful stream have sandy or pebble bottoms and pure and transparent waters.
		The Sangamon River was crossed in 1819, two years before ferry service was started with a canoe, because the Fancy Creek country had an attractive mixture of prairies and tree-bordered streams.
		Sangamon extended some one hundred miles northward, was bounded on the west by the Illinois River, and covered all of the present counties of Sangamon, Cass, Menard, Logan, Mason and Tazewell, and parts of Christian, Macomb, McLean, Woodford, Marshall, and Putnam.
	www.sancohis.org /eden.htm (6487 words)

	USGS - NAWQA - Water Quality in the Lower Illinois River Basin - Major Findings
		Sites on the largest rivers—the Illinois River at Ottawa and Valley City and the Sangamon River near Oakford—had the highest flow-weighted mean concentrations of total organic nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen, and phosphorus; the latter two are indicators of urban wastewater effluent [4].
		The Illinois River contributes from 15 to 20 percent of the total nitrogen that goes into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River [14, 12].
		In samples from the Illinois River at Ottawa and at Valley City and the Sangamon River at Oakford, all exceedances of the cyanazine HAL and the metolachlor aquatic-life guideline (7.8 µg/L) were concurrent with an exceedance of the atrazine MCL.
	pubs.usgs.gov /circ/circ1209/major_findings.htm (4706 words)

	KGS--Pleistocene Geology of Kansas--Stratigraphy--Yarmouthian Stage
		In the area south of Kansas River Valley and east from the crest of the Flint Hills the Crete member is judged to be represented by the highest elements of the low terrace complex, distinctly below the level of the Emporia and equivalent terraces.
		As the original description of the Sangamon was based on an occurrence in the Mississippi River basin, the soil occurring in the upper part of the Loveland loess at the Loveland type section in Iowa has been used as a section of reference for work in Kansas.
		The Sangamon soil where developed on thin colluvium is generally a well-drained profile with a tough B horizon that is a strong red-brown in color.
	www.kgs.ku.edu /Publications/Bulletins/99/05_strat3.html (5579 words)

	Post-glacial (16,000 BP) Environments in East-central Illinois
		The Lake of the Woods Park, Champaign County, Illinois, lies at the intersection of the Champaign Moraine and the Sangamon River.
		The Champaign Moraine is drained by four rivers - the Vermillion of the Wabash, the Embarrass, the Kaskaskia, and the Sangamon.
		Parmalee (1967:2) records that the rivers of the Illinois basin, specifically including the Sangamon, were major extraction loci for the national button industry that flourished during the first half of the twentieth century.
	virtual.parkland.edu /lstelle1/len/lw.htm (13762 words)

	Nine Gal Tavern
		If this reach of the Sangamon River system itself was ever an important element in the transportation system of east-central Illinois, it had ceased to be so by this stage.
		In the present context the community was locally labeled the "Sangamon Timber Settlement." The physical extent was from near the contemporary village of Fisher to the Piatt County line, a linear distance of twenty miles.
		River crossings continued to include fords but the ferry was replaced with the bridge.
	virtual.parkland.edu /lstelle1/len/center_for_social_research/ninegal/sha9gal3.htm (10868 words)

	Life Histories of Waterstriders of the Sangamon River, Champaign County, Illinois
		The drainage basin at this point on the Sangamon River is about 362 square miles, with land use dominated by row crop agriculture.
		The Sangamon River is fairly heavily shaded in my study area, and dappled sunlight filters through the leafy trees in the summertime.
		Snags, resulting from trees falling in the river in the river, accumulate large mats of floating debris and garbage.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /~sjtaylor/gerromorph/sangamon.html (677 words)

	SANGAMON RIVER RRA, CENTRAL ILLINOIS, USA
		At the center of the forested corridor along the Sangamon River in this area is Allerton Park.
		The major natural features of the Sangamon River RRA are the forest tract at Robert Allerton Park and the Sangamon River.
		LANDCOVER : Nearly three-fourths of the Sangamon River RRA is cropland, the highest percentage among the RRAs.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /cwe/rra/site20.html (224 words)

	IRintro
		In the 1800s, the bounty of the river was shared by all -- unlimited hunting for waterfowl and forbearing animals, harvesting mussels for a booming button industry, and carving out slabs of ice in winter for refrigeration.
		The Illinois River and its backwater areas occupy about one-third of the floodplain (105,000 acres), of which 47,000 acres are in state and federal ownership and 34,000 acres are owned by private sporting clubs.
		The Illinois River Strategy Team is committed to implementation of the plan and future evaluation of progress throughout the watershed of the Illinois River and its tributaries, from Chicago to Alton.
	www2.ic.edu /beal/IRintro2.html (2295 words)

	USGS - NAWQA - Water Quality in the Lower Illinois River Basin - Major Findings, Continued
		Cyanazine was detected in 97 percent of the river and stream samples and alachlor was detected in 74 percent of the samples during 1996—98.
		The biological repercussions of industrial and domestic wastes being diverted to the Illinois River peaked in about 1920, when plants, benthic organisms, and fish practically were eliminated from the Illinois River downstream from Chicago to a point downstream from Peoria [38].
		In the Illinois River, bed-sediment concentrations of seven metals (chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, and zinc) were highest near Ottawa and decreased downstream [44] (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /circ/circ1209/major_findings2.htm (4121 words)

	Woodall's...Camping & RVing in the Great Outdoors! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tributary of the Illinois River flows through a heavily populated part of the stateâ”completely within Greater Chicagoland area, but the large number of parks, forest preserves and other natural areas creates a wilderness character.
		A long, meandering, canoeing river in the heart of agricultural country flows for several miles through Allerton Park National Natural Landmark and the Greater Springfield area; the segment between Decatur and new Salem is the "Lincoln Heritage Canoe Trail." Counties: McLean, Menard, Sangamon, Macon, Piatt and Champaign.
		The River to River Trail is a 140-mile trail meandering through some of the remote areas.
	www.woodalls.com /common/states/usa_il.cfm (1291 words)

	Lower Sangamon River Valley Critical Trends Assessment: The Area at a Glance
		The watershed includes the lower 107 miles of the Sangamon River, Salt Creek, the South Fork, several smaller tributaries, and a 50-mile long reach of the east bank of the lower middle Illinois River between the Mackinaw River on the north downstream to the Sangamon River on the south.
		On the Illinois River the LaGrange Lock and Dam maintains a nine-foot deep navigation channel to prevent the Illinois from dropping too low, affecting low-lying areas upstream, where there are now permanent lakes in places that used to be seasonally dry.
		Despite the alterations, eight stream segments-two on the Sangamon River and six on tributary streams-totaling nearly 140 miles are classified as biologically significant streams because they contain threatened or endangered species or high mussel or fish diversity.
	dnr.state.il.us /orep/c2000/assessments/lower_sangamon/ataglance.htm (1534 words)

	Colorado Springs Proceedings - Section F - Johnson
		The Sangamon River, located in east-central Illinois, drains some of the most intensively used agricultural land in the Midwest.
		During the study period, 1,607 pounds of atrazine were transported by the river; this mass represents 1.4 percent of the total annual application of 113,700 pounds.
		The river transported 669 pounds of cyanazine--a mass equal to 1.6 percent of the total annual application of 41,900 pounds.
	toxics.usgs.gov /pubs/cos-procee/sec.f-ag.chem/johnson2.proof.html (350 words)

	State of Illinois Home - IGNN (Illinois Government News Network)
		The nominations of the Kaskaskia River and the Upper Sangamon watersheds and the
		Mississippi River segment that borders Illinois and Missouri have been submitted by Gov. Blagojevich to U.S. EPA for consideration under a federal Watershed Initiative program that could provide grants up to $1.3 million each for efforts that target short term environmental results and demonstrate the potential for long term maintenance.
		Crop production accounts for approximately 87 percent of the land use in the Upper Sangamon River watershed and extensive use of tile drainage in the watershed has been identified as providing agricultural benefits but is also a source for erosion and nutrient losses.
	www.illinois.gov /PRessReleases/PressReleasesListShow.cfm?RecNum=2626 (679 words)

	A River Runs Through It
		In addition to providing needed scientific data on the quality of Illinois rivers and streams, the program is meeting a number of other important objectives, including public education, promoting environmental stewardship, and minimizing the cost of environmental monitoring by using trained volunteers.
		The "Illinois Rivers Project" was implemented in 1990 with Dr. Robert Williams, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
		From their studies of the rivers and surrounding communities, the students have produced scientific reports, articles, essays, and creative writhing.
	www.ms.k12.il.us /ARRTI/description.html (3396 words)

	Search Results for Sangamon - Encyclopædia Britannica
		river formed by headstreams in northwestern Champaign County, Illinois, U.S. It flows southwesterly, bending around Decatur, where a dam impounds Lake Decatur, and turns west past Springfield, the...
		It lies along the Sangamon River in the central part of the state.
		Algonkian-speaking Indians, related to the Sauk and Fox, who lived at the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, probably in present Columbia county, Wisconsin, U.S., when first reported by...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Sangamon&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (275 words)

	Ecosystems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In class we discussed the bottomland forest ecosystem, which is flooded periodically by the Sangamon River that flows through the middle of the park.
		The Sangamon River is the sources of drinking water for Decatur and enters the Illinois River past Springfield.
		The Sangamon River in mid-summer (low flow), with bottomland forest ecosystems along the shore.
	classes.aces.uiuc.edu /NRES104/Lectures/ecosystems.htm (176 words)

	Search Results
		Reynolds says river is 50 yards wide and running "like a milltail." By felling trees into river, volunteers cross, swimming their horses.
		Since Vandruff's Island lies between Milan and village on north side of river, it is not unlikely that camps extended from Milan to island and perhaps across to village; good fords cross both channels of river.
		River is very low and it is hard pull to "make half the speed of legs on land; in fact we let her float all night and in the morning always found objects still visible that were beside us the previous evening."
	www.stg.brown.edu /projects/lincoln/search.php?key_id=28054&yyyy=1832 (6461 words)

	Page 5--They Left Their Mark In Oakford, 1872 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lincoln was appointed Deputy Surveyor of Sangamon County.
		Lincoln made a motion to the House for an "act to improve the navigation of the Sangamon River" from Beardstown to Miller's Ferry.
		Lincoln presented the Beardstown and Sangamon Canal petition to the House of Representatives.
	www.iltrails.org /menard/1872pg5.html (716 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Macon County Landfill #2 (a/k/a Macon County #2), Decatur, Macon County, Illnois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is bordered by U.S. Highway Route 51 to the east, Hill Road and agricultural land to the north, the Sangamon River about 0.25 miles to the south, and an active landfill to the west.
		The eastern edge of this area was restricted by a fence along U.S. Highway 51, the Sangamon River and a wooded area to the south.
		The potential for runoff of site-related contamination into the river should be decreased by leachate extraction and the completion of a vertical barrier or slurry wall.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/macon/mcl_p1.html (2370 words)

	James Latham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Latham came to Sangamon County in 1818, establishing a farm on the Sangamon River and moving a year later north across the river to Elkhart Grove, on Elkhart Hill, becoming the first white to build a cabin on the north side of the Sangamon.
		Chapman established a ferry, in 1818, on the Sangamon River, near Bogue's Mill.
		Came to what was then Sangamon County with her parents, and married Grant Blackwell; returned to Kentucky and died there in 1827.
	home.fgi.net /~lstevens/history/jl.htm (1705 words)

	History Page
		Abraham Lincoln is reported to have stopped at the ferry in the spring of 1831 on his way down the Sangamon River.
		This railroad was supposed to have run from the Illinois River to the boundary line with Indiana.
		The Northern Cross, which had been sold, was reorganized as the Sangamon and Morgan Railroad, which then became the Great Western.
	www.voril.com /History_Page.html (1114 words)

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		Flooding is reported at locations to Baton Rouge, LA. The Ohio River: The lower Ohio River is flooding from JT Meyers Dam, KY to Cairo, IL.
		The Illinois River is expected to crest at the second highest crest on record at Beardstown.
		The levee failed at Mechanicsburg in Sangamon County, and the water treatment plant was inundated.
	www.nws.noaa.gov /oh/hic/archive/2002/020514.txt (311 words)

	Herald & Review Newspaper Website - Decatur, Illinois - Central Illinois Newspaper Group (CING)
		He and other administrators and leaders of conservation groups are counting on Sangamon River Clean-up Day, Saturday, Sept. 17, to return a few stretches of the river to its natural state.
		The idea is to make the river more attractive for people to use for canoeing and fishing, as well as more inhabitable for wildlife.
		It is a common problem throughout the nation for trash to detract from the beauty of rivers.
	www.herald-review.com /articles/2005/09/09/news/local_news/1009962.txt (768 words)

	Sangamon County Fact Sheet
		Named after the Sangamon River which flows through the county which derived its name from the Pottawatomie Indian word Sain-guee-mon or Sangamon (pronounced
		Click on thumbnail to view a map of Sangamon County and its civil and congressional townships.
		Research requests should be sent to the IRAD depository holding the records you wish to have searched.
	www.sos.state.il.us /departments/archives/irad/sangamon.html (175 words)

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