About $2.3 million was recently appropriated by the Indiana General Assembly to tend to water management challenges in the Kankakee River Basin and Yellow River Basin Development Commission.
Commission Executive Director Scott Pelath, in his testimony to the General Assembly, said the funds will be used remove fallen trees and logjams that directly impede river channels, redesign the sediment-heavy Yellow River banks in Starke and Marshall Counties, convert a Commission-owned farm in Newton County to a flood storage area, assist Jasper County’s efforts to stabilize failing Kankakee River banks, and preserve seven U.S.. Geological Survey river gages.
