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1995 - 1996
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Due to the timing and intensity of spring rains in relation to the
agricultural producers’ activities in the fields, the levels of
triazines in the Eagle Creek Reservoir’s untreated water exceeded
the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) drinking water quality
standard for most of each year. |
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1997 |
Spring: Indiana Farm Bureau hired a watershed coordinator to begin a
watershed group to investigate water quality issues in the Eagle
Creek Watershed. Summer: while a list of stakeholders and
steering committee members was being developed, a water sampling
program with “in-kind” testing by the Indianapolis Water Company was
initiated. Fall & Winter: regular monthly meetings of the steering
committee were held and various technical subcommittees took place.
A 319 grant for funding the watershed coordinator was approved and
work on the Watershed Management Plan began. |
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1998 |
Data continued to be gathered as well as work on the management
plan. In the fall, the watershed task force, in combination with
the Heartlands Group of the Indiana Sierra Club, sponsored a tour of
failing septic systems in the watershed in Boone County. |
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1999 |
Data collection and work on the management plan continued. |
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2000 & 2001 |
A 319 grant was obtained for bio-assay of 20 sites in the Eagle
Creek Watershed. |
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2002 |
A 319 grant was submitted for a DNA ribotyping study of E. coli.
This grant was also supported by funding from the Sierra Club.
Another 319 grant was submitted to begin Phase I Implementation for
BMP’s in the watershed. This grant was unsuccessful due to
lack of supporting data in the watershed management plan. |
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2003 |
The 319 grant for the ribotyping of E. coli study was
completed. Work continued on revising the management plan to
get it to support the 319 BMP grant that had been conditionally
accepted. |
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2004 |
The taskforce was unsuccessful in obtaining the 319 BMP grant. |
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2005 |
The Eagle Creek Watershed Management Plan was completed and approved
by IDEM. The Eagle Creek Watershed Task Force expanded to
become the Eagle Creek Watershed Alliance. The Alliance
applied for a 319 grant to implement the watershed management plan. |
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2006 |
A 319 Phase 1 Implementation grant was awarded to the Alliance.
A Watershed Coordinator was hired and a steering committee and
working committees were formed to carry out the tasks of the
implementation grant.
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