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Hydrology

An 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, Illinois State Water Survey Ground-Water Section, Watershed Science Section, 1999  (2.41 MB)

Assessment Of The Lake Michigan Monitoring Inventory: A Report

On The Lake Michigan Tributary Monitoring Project, Great Lakes Commission, August 2000  (15.23 MB)

Calumet Area Hydrologic Master Plan (HMP), Chicago Department of Environment, Cook County, August 2006

Volume I    :  Executive Summary (6 MB)

Volume II   :  Watershed Atlas & State-Discharge Rating Curves  (45 MB)

Volume III  :  IDOT Pump Station NO. 27 and Outlet Channel To Lake

                        Calumet (Pullman Creek/Doty Ditch) (8 MB)

Volume IV :  Control Structure Assessment and Improvement

                        Recommendations   (2.6 MB)

Volume V :   Water Level Monitoring, Groundwater Seeps and Water

                        Quality Monitoring Report  (16.5 MB)

Volume VI    :  Survey Control and Mapping  (90 MB)

Volume VII   :  Hegewisch Marsh Hydrologic Analysis  (3.8 MB)

Volume VIII  :  Van Vlissingen Prairie Hydrologic Analysis  (3.3 MB)

Decisions At The Water's Edge: Sustaining Riparian Landscapes

In The Midwest, Lynne Westphal and Michael Ostry, U.S. Department of Agriculture - U.S. Forest Service, 2006  (2.41 MB)

Geology, Hydrology, and Water Quality of the Cambrian & Ordovician Systems in Northern Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey, Illinois State Water Survey, 1985   (2.10 MB)

Guide To Flood Protection In Northeastern Illinois, Illinois Association For Floodplain and Stormwater Management, March 2006  (1.06 MB)

Hydrologic Evaluation and Stream Restoration Recommendations
For Indian Creek, USDA Forest Service, February 2001  (577 KB)

Hydrology And Geochemistry Of A Slag Affected Acquifer and
Chemical Characteristics of Slag-Affected Ground Water, North-western Indiana and Northeastern Illinois, USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 97-4198, 1998 (1.56 MB)

Indiana Drainge Handbook: An Administrative and Technical Guide For Activities Within Indiana Stream and Ditches , Indiana Department of Natural Resources, October 1999  (15.46 MB)

New Chicago Model: A Reassessment of the Impacts of Lake Michigan Allocations on the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer System

In Northeastern Illinois, Stephen L. Burch, Illinois Water Survey,

1991 (907 KB)

Preliminary Report On Groundwater Resources In The Chicago Region, State Water Survey, 1959  (2.05 MB)

Water Resource Availability In The Lake Michigan Region, Indiana, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 1994  (22.88 MB)

Watershed Management Plan for Lake, Porter, & LaPorte Counties, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, 2005 (2.5 MB)

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