Congressman Visclosky announced the release of a Letter of Map Revision from the Federal Emergency Management Agency which affects the areas of Hammond and Munster currently within the floodplain as requested. The LOMR revises the Flood Insurance Study Report and Flood Insurance Rate Map for the affected local communities, providing additional flood protection and reducing [...]
The Chicago District Corps of Engineers has issued a pre-solicitation notice for its Calumet Harbor maintenance dredging. The contractor will be responsible for providing all necessary facilities, plants, labor, transportation, materials, and equipment to perform mechanical dredging in the Calumet River to remove 10,000 cubic yards of sediment around specified bridges to maintain navigation into [...]
The recent completion of a $52 million project to rid Roxana Marsh of contaminated sediment will speed the recovery of Indiana’s Grand Calumet River, marking a step forward for one of the Great Lakes’ most complex Area of Concern cleanups. Representatives from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of [...]
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The dredging of the Grand Calumet River is already showing results in reducing the high concentration of pollutants in the waterway… By Amy Lavalley (suntimes) Source: suntimes, December 4, 2011;
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Now that the Army Corps of Engineers has completed the confined disposal facility along the Little Calumet River, city officials and … By Michelle L. Quinn (suntimes) Source: suntimes, November 17, 2011;
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and… (nwitimes) Source: nwitimes, June 3, 2011
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and three other federal and state agencies will host a meeting June 2 to update the public on a contaminated sediment cleanup planned for the East Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, area. The cleanup, funded under the Great Lakes Legacy Act, involves the Grand Calumet River and Roxana Marsh, near the [...]
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Thomas Simon knows first hand what a terrible condition the Grand Calumet River has been in. When he first sampled it for fish in 1985, his… By GITTE LAASBY (suntimes) Source: suntimes, February 24, 2011;
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Dredging of one section of the Grand Calumet River is complete and crews are expected to move off the site by the end of the month, Indiana… By Kathleen Quilligan (nwitimes) Source: nwitimes, August 25, 2010;
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Dredging work has been finished on the first small section of the heavily polluted Grand Calumet River in northwestern Indiana… Source:newstalk,March 23,2010;
