Overview of the implementation of a local comprehensive water master plan.

This publication discusses the benefits of several urban best management practices for protecting or improving water quality. These BMPs are used in the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment model in the Tipping Point Planner decision support system.

This document is available through the Purdue Extension Education Store at https://edustore.purdue.edu/FNR-580-W.html.

This collaborative program gives watershed planning groups across the Great Lakes the information they need to protect natural resources and enhance local economies.

For more detailed information, visit Tipping Points Planner

Overview of funded research in Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant in 2016

Feature Headlines

• Forecast Calls for Windy City Winter Blues
• Invasive Mussel Impacts: It’s Complicated
• Nearshore Food Web is an East-west Story
• Student Scientists Explore Real-world Issues
• New Tool Helps Planners Steer Clear of Tipping Points

Feature Headlines

• Lake Michigan Shoreline Water is a Medicine Cocktail
• Chicago Students Take on Medicine Disposal
• Recreation Reduces Karner Blue Butterfly Reproduction
• Great Lakes Legacy Act Fosters Riverfront Revitalization
• Forecasting the Fate of Lake Michigan Storms
• Alum can Clean Up Phosphorous from Manure Spills

Feature Headlines

• Strategies for Water Conservation: Is the Price Right?
• Wingspread Accord Expands its Reach
• Restoration Master Plans Build on Community Clean Ups
• SOLEC Spotlights Great Lakes Nearshore Conditions
• Invasive Hydroid may Strain Food Source of Young Fish

Feature Headlines

• The Troubled Youth of Yellow Perch
• Great Lakes Monitoring Provides Management Cues
• Consortium to Plan for Tri-state Water Supply
• Find Your Niche in Aquaculture
• New IISG Research Addresses Coastal Concerns
• Camping Out with Sea Grant
• New Curriculum Guide Premiers in Chicago
• Reporting New Aquatic Invaders is a Mouse Click Away

Feature Headlines

• Water-Wealthy/Water Poor
• Charlebois Indentifies New Invader
• IISG Goes to Brazil: An Interview with LaDon Swann
• NiSource and IISG Team Up to Fund Environmental Projects
• The Forecast for E. coli is….