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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Streamgages that have been collecting data since the 40s and 50s are being shut down in Illinois. If we're having trouble finding funding to monitor pollution in our waterways, here's my suggestion: The industry responsible for that pollution should pay for it.

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My Turn | Illinois needs more water monitoring, not less

"Time is of the essence. The streamgages will be turned off Thursday, but we should have several more weeks before they will be removed entirely. Once the gauges are pulled

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow. I did not realize lactating cow drank that much water.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So these cows use 1/4 the amount of water the average American per day? Are they showering three times a day and watering their pastures?

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Folks here are trying to figure out how to run data centers on biomass crops. Then locate the power generation and the centers at abandoned power plant sites / coal mine sites across Illinois to mine reclamation subsidies and avoid public ire. 😬

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thanks. I could rent a backhoe and connect it for real but, I am sure the TNC and the neighbors would go for that.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How are you going to restore hydraulic connectivity at Emiquon (natural flood cycles) for $150,000. Inquiring minds would Lille to know.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Something from your field that everyone should know: Flood damages are acts of man.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When the Ogallala Aquifer runs dry or it water becomes to expensive to use for the irrigation of corn and soybeans the dust will return and we will need a bigger bowl.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I agree, as long as the prairies want to live on floodplains. Trees really like floodplains too and I am not sure prairies have exclusivity when it comes to floodplains. But, what ever the outcome, much better than a landcover I have to subsidize as a tax paying citizen of this county.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thats’s great for Iowa. However, I flew over the very oligotrophic Lake Superior in a sea blame a few years back and could see the bottom of the lake (>50 ft deep) from 3000 feet up. Hands down Superior has the clearest water east of the Rockies. I know apple 🍎 vs. 🍊 to Iowa streams/rivers.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Grass is not a common cover type in most bank/ floodplain cover in most temperature- humid rivers. Willow, River Beerch, Sycamores, Cotton Woods, and Silver Maples are common Floodplain species along larger rivers in the Midwest. As far as management it depends on the goal(s), not what’s typical.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Best river in this neck of the woods. Watershed to steep to farm, just out of the lead belt it barely, escaped being dammed because of karstic bedrock makes for a bad dam foundation, low flood mitigation, water supply, and hydroelectric services. It is a feak of geography.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Needs some Willow to hold the bank.😬

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Something like this- Current River in Missouri

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...

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Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

8. Marty Ruess “Designing the Bayous” 9. Ruess “ Reshaping National Water Politics” 10. Barnett “Beyond Control”

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

1. Martin Doyle’s “ The Source” 2.John Anfinson’s the River We Have Wrought 3. Barry’s Rising Tide 4. Arthur Morgan’s Dams and other Disasters 5. Camillo and Pearcy “Upon their shoulder” 6. O’Neil’s “River by design:state power and origins of U.S. Flood Control” 7. Camilo “ Divine Providence”

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Better than my view in Carbondale.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

O no. Well the book was published by SIU press which is not known for publishing high resolution figures.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Do the abandoned coal mines next and the things corporations did to get around the Surface Mine Reclamation Act of 1977.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I know a place where pawpaws grow like weeds if you need more. It called by “back 40 m”.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

1/4 of a foot of rain makes sense, not a 1/4 of an inch. Units are important ;) Either way it takes a while for land with little to no slope to drain. But, that’s why we have federally subsided crop insurance.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Worth a read if you are intrested in alternatives to current large river floodplain agriculture in the central and southern Mississippi River Valley. Though farms like this will still need the federally subsidized levee system but perhaps less crop insurance - www.propublica.org/article/illi...

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The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Show me the cost benefit analysis and if the CBA is greater than 1 I call bullshit.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

… Secchi had a farm EI EI O? On this farm she had some GMO 🌽 EI EI O. With some manure here and Ammonia there EI EI O?

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Riparian rights for now, riparian rights tomorrow, riparian rights forever in Illinois. Note the sarcasm in my typing.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Disaster gains are real. Why would one try and infrastructure more resilient to risk when a good disaster will likely bring relief funding or mitigation grants post disaster? This is why the U.S. has ad-hoc disaster policy, no one wants to invest in resilience until after the disaster happens.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Technical -Gilbert White - Human adjustment to floods: geographical approach to the flood problem and choice of adjustments to floods Popular - John Barry - Rising tide

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

You get milquetoast that’s harmful to human health.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

So the EPA is now doing win, win analyses (project benefit less direct costs)? Makes me want to advocate for a 100% discount rate for such assessments.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

But, the Chicago shipping Canal was a real 💩 show.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Did mean to distract from your thread.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The first “U.S. environmental” Law was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 in part because our rivers were so polluted at the turn of the century 20th century and of course there was the famous 1901 Missouri v. Illinois and Sanitary District of Chicago case.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

So, not much has changed in 9 years. Current administration is currently working to get SIUC off the list again. If this post is true, I am surprised the education dean has time to teach. Most of the deans travel 50% of the time or more to fund raise for the university.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Seen a number of Copper heads in my SoIL travels. Did you have any snapping turtles in your pond? Also an SoIL classic.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

SoIL does have its fair share of snakes.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I had a bobcat in my yard a few years ago. I just assumed you would have seen them around with your chicken coop and all.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

How about Bob Cats, Pileated Wood Peckers, Bard Owls, Scarlet Tanagers, and Red Sliders ( The turtles in your strip mine, I mean pond)😬 if we are being nostalgic for SoIL.

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