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Calumet River System

Amphibians and Reptiles of the Grand Calumet River Basin, Kenneth Mierzwa, Spencer Cortwright, David A. Beamer, Department of Biology, Indiana University Northwest, 2000  (7.43 MB)

An Assessment of Sediment Injury in the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Canal, Indiana Harbor, and the Nearshore Areas of
Lake Michigan: Volumes 1-2-3, USFWS, February 2003  (2.89 MB)

An Estimate of Chemical Loads From Ground Water to the Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal, Northwestern Indiana,

Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4020, USGS 2001  (2.36 MB)

Analyses Of Impacts Of Bottom Sediments From Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal On Water Quality, United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), February 1989  (5.62 MB)

Anglers’ Appraisals of the Risks of Eating Sport-Caught Fish From Industrial Areas: Lessons from Chicago’s Calumet Region, Lynne M. Westphal, Mario Longoni, Cherie L. LeBlanc, Alaka Wali, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Field Museum, 2008  (110 KB)

Aquatic Macroinvertebrates of the Grand Calumet River, Richard L. Whitman, USGS Great Lakes Science Center. 1999   (154 KB)

Assessment of Injury to Fish and Wildlife Resources in the Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Area of Concern, MacDonald, Ingersoll, Smorong, Lindskoog, Sparks, Smith, Simon, Hanace,

January 2002  (461 KB)

Assessment of Injury to Human Uses of Fishery Resources in the
Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal, the Grand Calumet
River Lagoons, and Indiana Harbor and the Nearshore Areas of Lake Michigan: Volume 1 - Technical Report, USFWS, 2003  (1.45 MB)

Assessment of Injury to Human Uses of Fishery Resources in the
Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal, the Grand Calumet
River Lagoons, and Indiana Harbor and the Nearshore Areas of Lake

Michigan: Volume II - Appendices, USFWS, February 2003  (1.30 MB)

Assessment of the Hydrology and Water Quality of Indian Ridge Marsh and the Potential Effects of Wetland Rehabilitation on the Diversity of Wetland Plant Communities, USEPA, 1999  (2.69 MB)

Assessment Plan for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment of

the Grand Calumet River, Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, Indiana Harbor, and Associated Lake Michigan Environments, Weiss, Unsworth, and Ruder, Industrial Economics, Incorporated, October 1997  (158 KB)

Benthic Macroinvertabrate Community In Selected Chicago Metro-politan Area Waterways During 2003 and 2004, MWRDGC,

June 2006  (10.6 MB)

Biological And Toxicological Investigations Of Chicago Area Navigation Projects, Dorkin, John; Ross, Philippe; Henebry, Michael S.; Miller, Jan.; Wetzel, Mark , US Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District. Illinois Natural History Survey Contract Report, 1987  (9.46 MB)

Burns Ditch/Waterway Sediment Transport Modeling - Phase One, Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers Inc. (CTE), 2003  (1.79 MB)

Cady Marsh Ditch Project Mitigation: Implementation Of Wet Savanna At Little Calumet River In Northwest Indiana, United States Army Corps Of Engineers (USACE), March 2009  (1.23 MB)

Calumet Area Ecotoxicology Protocol, Prepared by the Calumet Ecotoxicology Roundtable Technical Team, Chicago Department of Environment, June 2007  (1.16 MB)

Calumet Tunnel Component Of The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP)

Proposed By The Metropolitan Sanitary District Of Greater Chicago: Environmental Impact Statement, United States Environmtnal Protection Agency (USEPA) - Region 5, December 1976  (24.06 MB)

Characterization of Fill Deposits in the Calumet Region of Northwestern Indiana and Northeastern Illinois, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 96–4126, 1996  (1.5 MB)

Chemical and Toxicological Analyses of Lake Calumet Sediments, Illinois State Natural History Survey, HWRIC RR-036, 1989  (451 KB)

Chicago's Living Rivers, Chicago Rivers Demonstration Project,

1999  (451 KB)

Coffee Creek Watershed Management Plan, Coffee Creek Watershed Conservancy, JFNew, JFNew File #00-10-14, April 2003  (2.49 MB)

Derivation of Baseline Bioaccumulation Factors (BAFs) from Grand Calumet River Field Measured BAFs for Benzo[a]pyrene, Great lakes Environmental Center, March 2000  (414 KB)

Diagnostic-Feasibility Study of Lake George, Lake County, Indiana, Raman K. Raman, Shun Dar Lin, and David L. Hullinger, Wiliam C. Bogner, James A. Slowikowski, and George S. Roadcap,

November 1996  (1.15 MB)

Diagnostic-Feasibility Study of Wolf Lake, Cook County, Illinois, and Lake County, Indiana, Shun Dar Lin, Raman K. Raman, William C. Bogner, James A. Slowikowski, George S. Roadcap, and David L. Hullinger, October 1996  (4.94 MB)

Ecological Potential Of The Grand Calumet River Basin, Richard L. Whitman, Meredith B. Nevers, Shira Hammann: USGS, Philip B. Moy: University of Wisconsin, Manitowoc, 2000 (10.71 MB)

Economic Benefits of the Grand Calumet River Remediation Project:
Evidence from the Gary Housing Market, Daniel P. McMillen, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Delta Institute, June 2003  (1.16 MB)

Effects of Highway Deicer Application on Ground-Water Quality in a Part of the Calumet Aquifer, NW Indiana, USGS, 2002   (1.16 MB)

Geohydrology and Groundwater Potential of Lake County, Indiana,

United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1968  (3.73 MB)

Geohydrology and Groundwater Potential of Porter and LaPorte Counties, Indiana, US Geological Survey (USGS), 1968  (2.99 MB)

Geohydrology, Water Levels and Directions of Flow, and Occurrence of Light Nonaqueous Phase Liquids on Ground Water in NW Indiana & the Lake Calumet Area of Northeastern Illinois, USGS 1996  (1.61 MB)

Grand Calumet Feasibility Study: Project Management Plan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District,  March 2003  (4.77 MB)

Grand Kankakee Marsh National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Assessment , United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS),

August 1999  (4.09 MB)

Groundwater Resources of Northwestern Indiana - Lake County, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1961  (5.55 MB)

Groundwater Resources of Northwestern Indiana - LaPorte County, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1962  (4.69 MB)

Groundwater Resources of Northwestern Indiana - Porter County, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1961  (3.86 MB)

History and Environmental Setting of the Grand Calumet River, U.S .
Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station, 2000  (3.66 MB)

Hydrology and Geochemistry of a Slag-Afected Aquifer and Chemical Characteristics of Slag-Affected Ground Water, Northwestern Indiana and Northeastern Illinois, USGS 1998   (1.56 MB)

Lake Calumet and Calumet River Issue Paper (Draft), Illinois Depart-ment of Natural Resources (IDNR), May 2007  (77 KB)

Little Calumet and Grand Calumet River White Paper, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission (NIPC), March 2006  (5.23 MB)

Little Calumet River Corridor Plan: Indiana Dunes National

Lakeshore, United States Department of the Interior, National Park

Service (NPS), July 1991  (4.04 MB)

Little Calumet River Watershed Management Plan (Draft), Gary Storm Water Management District (GSWMD), March 2008  (23.52 MB)

Make No Small Plans: The Cook County Forest Preserve District
and Lake Calumet, Mike Quigley, Cook County Commissioner,

10th District, November 2002  (1.78 MB)

Mercury in the Grand Calumet River Indiana Harbor Canal and Lake Michigan, Lake County, Indiana, August 2001 and May 2002, Martin R. Risch, USGS, 2005  (4.65 MB)

Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal & Associated Lake Michigan Environments, Industrial Economics Incorporated, October 1997  (158 KB)

Nature and the River: A Natural Resources Report of the Chicago and Calumet Waterways, Chicago Rivers Project, 1999  (2.15 MB)

Past, Present, and Potential Of Fish Assemblages In The Grand Calumet River and Indiana Harbor Canal Drainage With Emphasis On Recovery Of Native Fish Communities, Thomas P. Simon: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Philip B. Moy: US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 

2000  (13.69 MB)

PCBs In The Surficial Sediment Of The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Lake Michigan, Andres Martinez, Karin Norström, Kai Wang, Keri C. Hornbuckle, November 2010  (803 KB)

People and the River: Perception And Use Of Chicago Waterways For Recreation, Chicago Rivers Demonstration Project, 1998  (2.74 MB)

Phytoremediation Along the Indiana Harbor Canal, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), 2005  (2.81 MB)

Pollutant Transport To Lake Calumet and Adjacent Wetlands and An Overview of Regional Hydrology, William P. Fitzpatrick, Nani G. Bhowmik, Illinois State and Water Survey, RR·E50, 1990  (4.51 MB)

Quality of Wet Deposition in the Grand Calumet River Watershed Northwestern Indiana, April 29, 1997–April 28, 1998, Timothy C. Willoughby, USGS 2000  (646 KB)

Restoration Alternatives Development and Evaluation Report: Grand Calumet River/Indiana Harbor Canal, Indiana, US Fish and Wildlife
Service, December 2000  (13.65 MB)

Restoration and Compensation Determination Plan Grand Calumet River/Indiana Harbor Canal Natural Resource Damage Assessment, US Fish and Wildlife Service, June 2004  (463 KB)

Salt Creek Watershed Management Plan (Draft), Save the Dunes Conservation Fund, November 2007  (6.27 MB)

Sidestream Elevated Pool Aeration (SEPA) Stations: Effects On In-Stream Dissolved Oxygen, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Illinois State Water Survey, 2001   (2.33 MB)

Simulation Of Urban Runoff And Pollutant Loading From The Greater Lake Calumet Area , Illinois State Water Survey, Office of Spatial Data Analysis and Information, SWS Contract Report 504, 1990  (932 KB)

Status, Trends, and Potential of Biological Communities of the

Grand Calumet River Basin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers   (1.18 MB)

Supplemental River Sediment Investigation - Former Hammond MGP Site, Hammond, Indiana, ThermoRetec Consulting Corporation,

NIPSCO, September 1999  (15.58 MB)

Surface-Water and Ground-Water Hydrology and Contaminant Detections in Ground Water for a Natural Resource Damage Assessment of the IN Harbor Canal & Nearshore Lake Michigan Watersheds, U.S. Geological Survey, June 2002  (1.18 MB)

Surface Water Quality Assessment Of The Upper Illinois River Basin In Illinois, Indiana, And Wisconsin: Analysis Of Relations Between Fish Community Structure And Environmental Conditions In The Fox, Des Plaines, And Du Page River Basins In Illinois, 1982-84, Peter M. Ruhl, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1995  (2.90 MB)

Surface Water Quality Assessment Of The Upper Illinois River Basin In Illinois, Indiana, And Wisconsin: Results Of Investigations Through April 1992 , Arthur R. Schmidt, Stephen F. Blanchard, United States Geological Survey (USGS), 1997  (3.33 MB)

Suspended Sediment in the Indiana Harbor Canal and the Grand Calumet River, Northwestern Indiana, May 1996–June 1998, Water Resources Investigations Report 00–4102, USGS, 2000  (629 KB)

Temporal and Spatial Distribution and Source Identification of Organic Pollutants in the Lake Calumet Area, Jae-Kil Jang, University of Illinois

at Chicago, 2011 (11.2 MB)

Use of Isotopes to Identify Sources of Ground Water, Estimate Ground Water Flow Rates, and Assess Aquifer Vulnerability in the Calumet Region of Northwestern Indiana and Northeastern Illinois, USGS, 2002 (5.25 MB)

Volatilization Rates From Dredged Material and Soils - A Literature Review - With Application to Indiana Harbor and Canal, United States Army Corps of Engineers, February 2002  (655 KB)

Water Levels In The Calumet Aquifer And Their Relation To Surface- Water Levels In Northern Lake County , Indiana, 1985-1992, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Indiana Department of Environ- mental Management (IDEM), 1995  (5.16 MB)

Water Use in Indiana, Graphs by County and Water Management Basin, 1986–2006, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Water (IDNR), USGS, November 2007  (3.93 MB)

Watershed Diagnostic Study of the Little Calumet - Galien River Watershed, IN DNR - Division of Water Resources, 2001  (10.04 MB)

Watershed Restoration Action Strategy For The Little Calumet-Galien Watershed: Part 1 - Characterization and Responsibilities, Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), 2002   (695 KB)

Watershed Restoration Action Strategy For The Little Calumet-Galien Watershed: Part 2 - Concerns and Recommendations, Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), 2002   (365 KB)

Wolf Lake Vision, Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative, 2006  (115 KB)

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