Waukegan coastal monitoring buoy

Surface Currents

Buoy 45186 (Waukegan) is owned by the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS), a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Annual operational cost is provided by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Coastal Management Program (Illinois CMP). The buoy was built and first deployed by LimnoTech, Inc., in 2018. The startup cost for purchase and initial deployment was possible through a grant award to Illinois CMP and ISGS from NOAA, Office of Coastal Management. LimnoTech, Inc. continues to service, deploy, and retrieve the buoy annually though a cooperative effort with the ISGS and Illinois CMP.

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Temporal extent	2026-10-30 – 2026-10-30
Date (creation)	2026-11-04
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data contributor, GLOS, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness, of this information.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
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