Projects

Monitoring and Forecasting Outfalls of Streamflow
Contaminated by E.coli at the
Portage-Burns Waterway (Burns Ditch),
Lake Michigan, Indiana

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	Project Description
	Study Site
	Methods
	Long-Term Monitoring
	Storm-Period Monitoring
	Statistical Results
	Conclusions
	Link to Lake-Rim Geographic Information System (GIS)
Left. Aerial photograph, showing a discharge plume from Burns Ditch flowing into Lake Michigan. Right. View of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Burns Ditch.

Interim Report for Grant Number X-985816-01-0
between U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 5, Water Division
and the Indiana Geological Survey and Indiana University