Publications

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Watershed Management Plans

• St. Joseph River Watershed Management Plan (February 2006)
   
• Cedar Creek Watershed Management Plan (September 2005)
   
• Lower St. Joseph-Bear Creek Watershed Management Plan draft (2007)

Water Quality Reports

• 2004 St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative Water Quality Sampling Report
   
• 2005 St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative Water Quality Sampling Report (March 2006)
   
• Water Quality Modeling Analysis for the Cedar Creek Watershed (August 2005)
   
• Report on the Bacteria Source Tracking Project (October 2004)
   
• Distribution of the Native Freshwater Mussels in the Rivers of Allen County, Indiana (September 2005)
  This study, completed by Warren Pryor, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of St. Francis, summarizes the distribution of freshwater mussels of Allen County, Indiana between 1997 and 2004.
   
• 2006 St. Joseph River Watershed Initiative Water Quality Sampling Report
   
• River Surveys
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006

Conservation Tillage and Transects

• Sediment, Nutrient and Pesticide Reduction Project Phase II.
  Zone tillage equipment and cost-share opportunities for agricultural producers in the St. Joseph River Watershed.
   
• Final Report on Agronomic and Economic Performance (January 2006)
   
• Final Report on Conservation Tillage based on Watershed Transects (March 2006)

St. Joseph River Review Newsletters

• Winter 2008
• Winter 2007
• Fall 2007
• Summer 2007
• Spring 2007
• Fall 2006
• Summer 2006
• Spring 2006
• Winter 2006
• Summer 2005
• Fall 2005
• Spring 2005
• Winter 2005
• Fall 2004
• Spring 2004

Preventing Water Pollution

• How Rural Landowners Can Help (2007)
• How Urban and Suburban Landowners Can Help (2007)
• What Do Rubbie Duckies have to do with Nonpoint Source Pollution?

Water Resources

Watershed Connections: Water Resources of Allen County, Indiana (2002)
By Purdue Cooperative Extension Allen County and Maumee River Basin Commission
This publication gives basic information about surface and ground water resources of Allen County and discusses human activities that may be affecting those water resources.

What’s a Watershed? and Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC)