Bathymetric survey of the Brandon Road Dam Spillway, Joliet, Illinois

Bathymetric survey data of the Brandon Road Dam spillway was collected on May 27 and May 28, 2015 by the US Geological Survey (USGS) using Trimble Real-Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK-GPS) equipment. The base station was set up over a temporarily installed survey pin on both days. This pin was surveyed into existing NGS benchmarks within the Brandon Road Lock property. In wadeable sections, a GPS rover with 2.0 meter range pole and flat-foot was deployed. In sections unable to be waded, a 2.0 meter range pole was fix-mounted to a jon boat, and a boat-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) was used to collect the depth data. ADCP depth data were reviewed in the WinRiver II software and exported for processing with the Velocity Mapping Toolbox (Parsons and others, 2013). The RTK-GPS survey points of the water surface elevations were used to convert ADCP-measured depths into bed elevations. An InSitu Level Troll collected 1-minute water level data throughout the two day survey. These data were used to verify that a flat-pool assumption was reasonable for the conversion of the ADCP data to bed elevations given the measurement precision of the ADCP. An OPUS solution was acquired for each survey day.

Parsons, D. R., Jackson, P. R., Czuba, J. A., Engel, F. L., Rhoads, B. L., Oberg, K. A., Best, J. L., Mueller, D. S., Johnson, K. K. and Riley, J. D. (2013), Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): a processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 38: 12441260. doi: 10.1002/esp.3367