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Sources of Information

Introduction

LaPorte County Streams and Watersheds

  • Description of drainage: Soil Survey of LaPorte County
  • Gauging stations and discharge: Water Resources Data - Indiana, Water Year 1994. U.S. Geological Survey Water -Data Report IN-94-1.
  • Floodplains: The Indiana Water Resource: Availability, Uses, and Needs. Governor’s Water Resource Study Commission, State of Indiana, G.D. Clark, Editor, 1980.

LaPorte County Lakes and Wetlands

  • Indiana Lake Water Quality Update for 1989- 1993. Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Clean Lakes Program, Indianapolis.
  • Indiana 305(b) Report, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of Water Management. 1994-1995.

Precipitation

  • Amount of Precipitation: Soil Survey of LaPorte County.
  • Storm Information: Rainfall Frequency for Indiana. Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water. Sept. 1994.

Geology

  • Soil Survey of LaPorte County
  • General Soils Maps and Interpretation Tables for the Counties of Indiana. Purdue University Extension Publication AY-50.
  • Water Resource Availability in the Kankakee River Basin, Indiana. State of Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water. Water Resource Assessment 90-3, 1990.
  • Water Resource Availability in the Lake Michigan Region, Indiana. State of Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water. Water Resource Assessment 94-4, 1994.

LaPorte County Water Use

LaPorte County Drinking Water

LaPorte County Water Quality

  • Indiana 305(b) Report, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of Water Management. 1994-1995.
  • 1997 Indiana Fish Consumption Advisory. Indiana State Department of Health, Environmental Epidemiology Section. Obtain a copy at (317) 233-7808
  • Nitrate and Pesticides in Private Wells of Indiana. The Water Quality Laboratory, Heidelberg College and Indiana Farm Bureau Inc., 1994.

Potential Sources of Pollution in LaPorte County

Acknowledgements


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