Restoring Roxana Marsh: Two Decades in the Making
Working side-by-side with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Indiana Department of Environmental Management (DEM), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) celebrated completion of a two-decade project to clean up portions of the Grand Calumet River and Roxana Marsh in Indiana, highly contaminated by heavy metals, oil and man-made chemicals. Federal, state and local representatives including Service Deputy Regional Director Charlie Wooley, EPA Senior Advisor Cameron Davis, Indiana DNR Deputy Director John Davis, Indiana DEM co-trustee Beth Admire, and Congressman Pete Visclosky, came together to acknowledge the successful partnership that has restored over 25 acres of wetlands and remediated 2.5 miles of the river. To date, the entire cleanup in the Grand Calumet River has addressed just under 730,000 cubic yards of sediment. This effort was jointly funded by the Great Lakes Legacy Act and...