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The Kankakee Whole — Source to Mouth, Two Tellings of Its Length
The river whole: rise, course, and mouth, with its two lengths stated
AUDIT ROW #428 · ISWS CONTRACT REPORT 2000-03 · THE RISE PAIR PRINTED WHOLE
The Kankakee rises in the marshes southwest of South Bend and runs about a hundred and fifty miles to its marriage with the Des Plaines — and the first discipline of this article is that almost none of that course is Walkerton's…
The river's names in sequence, at the strength the record gives them
AUDIT ROW #429 · TREATY AND SURVEY RECORD · PRINTED SMALL, AS REACHED
The name's commonly given derivation (a Potawatomi form rendered "wolf land" in the popular etymologies) is printed as commonly given, attributed as such, because the linguistic record is contested and this section does not mint etymologies. The item closes mixed at that stated strength: the river's name sequence established in outline, the local waters' earlier names open under their settler.
Principal sources: the treaty and survey record at reference strength (the name's passage); settlers named — the cession treaty texts and the original survey field notes (the local sequence).
Tributaries named — and the ditches, which are this ground's real rivers
AUDIT ROW #430 · PINE AND POTATO CREEKS STAND PARTLY · THE DRAIN REGISTER IS THE SETTLER
Every named water of the township, as the record stands: the Kankakee (bounding), Pine Creek (the townsite's), Potato Creek (the southern), and then the legal drains — the named ditches of the county surveyor's register, which on…
The working river, tested: what floated, and what never did
AUDIT ROW #431 · CAMPBELL AND HOWARD FOR NAVIGATION · THE VERDICT AT ITS STRENGTH
Tested as a working river — rafts, flatboats, any commercial navigation on the reach that touches this ground — the Kankakee above the marsh country returns a drainage record, not a navigation one. Campbell and Howard were read…
Dams on the reach: the ledge works, restated as works
AUDIT ROW #432 · MOMENCE LEDGE — CUT 1893, BOULDERS REMOVED 1927 · SECOND-DAM NEGATIVE
The works on this river are drainage works, and the reach's one structure of record is the Momence ledge: the rock ledge at Momence, Illinois, cut in 1893 and cleared of boulders in 1927, the choke point whose opening let the…
Bridge successions: two sightings, and the settler for the sites
AUDIT ROW #433 · THE "FREE BRIDGE" (SEC. 26, T36N R1W) · THE IP&C BRIDGE AT MUD LAKE
The river crossings of record for this ground stand as two sightings, printed as sightings: a "Free Bridge" in section 26, Township 36 North, Range 1 West, and the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa — the IP&C — railway bridge at Mud Lake.…
The river as water supply: the town drinks from wells
AUDIT ROW #434 · TOWN UTILITY RECORD AT ITS STRENGTH
Walkerton does not drink the Kankakee: the town's municipal supply is groundwater — wells — and no river intake stands in the town's utility record as reached. The town is a utility-owning town (its code carries its electric utility at Ch. 51 and its water works in the government record), and its water story is the glaciated Midwest's standard one: wells into the outwash, a tower, a distribution system — the river beside it never tapped.
Principal sources: the Government and Town Code (the town's utilities), pointed to; settlers named — town utility reports; Indiana drinking-water (SDWIS) record for the Walkerton system.
The river as sewer: the discharge record, under its settler
AUDIT ROW #435 · COMBINED SYSTEM, DECREE, AND CLEANUP STATE — IDEM AS SETTLER
Every town's river is also its sewer, and Walkerton's receiving water is the Pine Creek–Kankakee drainage; but the formal record of that use — the town's discharge permits, any combined-sewer history, any decree or cleanup order…
Floods as a river record: the gauge frame, the crest table under its settler
AUDIT ROW #436 · USGS GAUGES ON THE REACH · THE CREST SERIES NAMED
The Kankakee's floods are a gauged record — the U.S. Geological Survey keeps the river's Indiana gauges (the upper-basin stations at Davis and downstream at Kouts and Shelby among them) — and a crest table for the reach is a pull…
The amenity turn, dated: a working river becomes a planned one
AUDIT ROW #437 · THE 2019 BASIN COMMISSION PLAN STANDS BANKED · THE TOWN'S EDGE AT ITS SIZE
The river's amenity turn on this ground is dated at basin scale: the Kankakee River Basin Commission's forty-year plan of 2019 — the document that recasts the drained marsh's river as a managed natural system, with recreation and…