Tag Archives: water quality

  In this week’s episode of Deep Dive on the WFHB Local News, we delve deep into Lake Monroe’s water quality. As the largest manmade lake in Indiana, Lake Monroe serves as a primary drinking water source for over 130,000 residents and a hub for recreational activities, generating millions in revenue annually.  Our guest, Maggie Sullivan, Watershed Coordinator for the …

In this week’s Eco Report EXTRA, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project to allow more public input, greater agency transparency and fuller assessment of economic and …

Coming up later in the program, correspondent Zyro Roze gets an in depth update from Steven Stewart, Hoosier National Forest Program Director for the Indiana Forest Alliance (IFA), on the latest developments regarding grassroots activists’ pressure on state officials to rethink the Buffalo Springs Restoration Project. And now for your environmental reports: How will Indiana respond to new rules about …

Eco Report Correspondent Zyro Roze talks with Kelly Conaway of Drift Botanicals, a green business specializing in a new model; reusable, refillable glass bottles of natural cleaners with an emphasis on safe, organic ingredients and local production. They explore the reasons for avoiding conventional cleaners, including plastic pollution, health hazards and water contamination. Conaway shares her experience growing up on a lake in …

HEADLINES The Indiana Environmental Reporter says our state has taken small steps toward breaking its heavy reliance on coal and natural gas, but some worry a new bill will slow that transition and keep emission-spewing fossil fuels around for much longer. —Norm Holy The Herald-Times recently reported that the Department of Agriculture has approved the first U.S. vaccine to protect …

HEADLINES According to the Tribune, Seymore’s newspaper, Community forums are set to learn about the newly published Lake Monroe Watershed Management Plan and how people can help protect and enhance water quality in the lake and its tributaries. —Norm Holy The Coalition Against the Mid-States Corridor, a proposed new-terrain highway in southern Indiana, has joined the Sierra Club, Indiana Forest …

When the 2021 legislative session began, more than 75 bills related to the environment had been filed in Indiana’s General Assembly. But as the session passes its halfway point, more than two-thirds of those bills are now dead. —Norm Holy Radio station WBIW reports a new project will focus on assessing, protecting and improving water quality for the Lower Salt …

China has banned the trade and consumption of wild animals in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 2700 lives and infected more than 81,000 people, most of them in China, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. BreakFreeFromPlastic engaged over 71,000 volunteers from 51 countries to conduct 484 brand audits. The volunteers collected plastic waste …

Residents of Bloomington’s Waterman neighborhood are raising concerns about contaminants in storm-water runoff from JB Salvage. On June 19, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management tested storm-water runoff from the locally-owned automotive scrap metal business. IDEM’s tests revealed levels of the contaminants copper, aluminum, iron and lead were all above EPA benchmarks. Sarah Cahillane was one of several Waterman neighborhood …

The Utilities Service Board will support a water quality initiative, by the Friends of Lake Monroe. Friends of Lake Monroe, a nonprofit, is applying for a federal grant to develop a watershed management plan, which would include the creation of a watershed coordinator position. Sherry Mitchell-Bruker is a hydrologist and founder of the Friends of Lake Monroe. She said the …