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Soil & Water director outlines $150,000 grant and new stormwater program manager role
Summary
Elkhart County Soil & Water described a Clean Water Indiana award, a research partnership with the University of Notre Dame, expanded consultant use for GIS and a proposed reclassification to create a stormwater program manager.
Jim Hess, manager of the Elkhart County Soil and Water Conservation District, told councilors the department secured a Clean Water Indiana award of about $150,000 to support county water-quality work and equipment purchases.
Hess said the grant allowed the district to collaborate with the University of Notre Dame, which will dedicate a year of research to watershed-level surface-water, groundwater and aquifer study in the Elkhart River and St. Joseph River basins. Hess described the research as an "arsenal" of…
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