Welcome to the DRSCW Bioassessment page.   Bioassessments are intensive watershed wide surveys of aquatic life,  physical habitat  and water and sediment chemistry.   Surveys are carried out in a 3-5 year rolling schedule.

To Aquatic Bioassessment and It’s Application for Management of Aquatic Communities

•  Coming Soon!

Biological and Water Quality Studies of the East and West Branches of the DuPage River and the Salt Creek Watersheds.

• Salt Creek Assessment 2013 & 2016 Report
• West Branch Assessment 2015
• East Branch Assessment 2014
• Quality Assurance Project Plan, Second Revision: July 1, 2012
• West Branch Assessment 2012
• East Branch Assessment 2011
• Salt Creek Assessment 2010
• West Branch Assessment 2009
• DuPage River Salt Creek Bioassessment Report 2006-2007

• DuPage/Salt Creek Bioassessment Monitoring Plan, March 20, 2006
• QAPP DuPage/Salt Creek Bioassessment Plan, 2012
  • QAPP Appendix A
  • QAPP Appendix B
  • QAPP Appendix C
  • QAPP Appendix D
  • QAPP Appendix E
  • QAPP Appendix F
  • QAPP Appendix G
  • QAPP Appendix H

Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will Counties, Illinois Center for Applied Bioassessment and Biocriteria

Midwest Biodiversity Institute
P.O. Box 21561
Columbus, OH 43221-056

Submitted to:
The DuPage River Salt Creek Workgroup
10 S. 404 Knoch Knolls Road
Naperville, IL 60565

Technical Report MBI/2008-12-3