Acknowledgements

The authors thank the following LaPorte County Natural Resource professionals for their assistance and review of this publication.

Walt Sell, LaPorte County Cooperative Extension Service

Henry Snyder, LaPorte Water Department

Theresa Wojkovich, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Powell Travis, LaPorte County Drainage Board

Lynn Waters, LaPorte County Solid Waste District

Danielle Livinghouse, LaPorte County Health Department

Bob Bucheit, LaPorte County Health Department

Roger Wolff, LaPorte County Office of Emergency Planning and Hazardous Material

Division of Water, Indiana Department of Natural Resources

Anne Marie Smrchek assisted with research and graphics.

Useful ideas for this project were provided by The Ohio Water Resources Educational Project (N'Jie, N-J, Ricker, K.T., Boone, K.M., and Brown, L.C., 1997. Teaching Water Resources to County Extension Personnel, ASAE Paper 97-2048).

Carol Newhouse, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, provided the lake condition data.

Water quality information is also available at the following World Wide Web sites:

Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service
Agriculture and Natural Resources Water Quality Web Page
http://www.anr.ces.purdue.edu/anr/natrsc/Water.html

National Extension Water Quality Data Base,
with full text of water quality publication from around the U.S. http://hermes.ecn.purdue.edu/water

Financial support for printing this publication was provided by the
LaPorte County Solid Waste District.

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