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Parks board accepts reduced IDEM beach-testing grant after federal cuts
Summary
Michigan City accepted an Indiana Department of Environmental Management grant that reduces daily E. coli sampling at city beach sites from multiple samples per day to one sample per day at each site, with city notification systems remaining in place.
Michigan City Parks and Recreation Board members on May 7 approved the city’s annual water-quality testing agreement with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, accepting a grant that reduces the frequency of E. coli sampling at Washington Park and two other beach sites.
Park staff told the board the federal Beach Act funding that flows through IDEM was cut this year, and that change forced a cut in the…
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