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SAVOY EXPERIMENTAL WATERSHED
Infrastructure
The SEW has served primarily as an applied field-training site and education and outreach center, with an impressive array of infrastructure, studies, and understanding gained from field camps, training courses, field trips, and thesis and dissertation research projects.
Infrastructure includes weirs, flumes, shallow and deep wells to assess infiltration and groundwater flow and transport, USGS stream gaging stations to measure surface-water fluxes, continuously monitoring multiprobes and autosamplers to assess water-quality attributes, suction lysimeters to sample soil water, weather stations to monitor atmospheric stresses and soil attributes, and tipping-bucket rain gages to monitor precipitation.
Most activity in the SEW has concentrated on Basins 1 and 2, two watersheds that outlet directly into the Illinois River. Monitoring infrastructure in Basin 1 now includes:
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Monitoring of Springs: Link
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Flow, pH, specific conductance, and temperature sensors on Langle and Copperhead springs
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Twenty deep (>30 m), 15 cm-diameter groundwater monitoring wells
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More than 50 shallow, 5 cm-diameter groundwater monitoring wells
- A v-notch weir to monitor surface runoff from Basin 1
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Eight weirs and flumes on springs to measure discharge
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Automatic water samplers and weirs on the springs and weir to collect storm flow samples for water quality analyses
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A comprehensive weather station
- A field laboratory for sample processing and equipment storage
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