East Chicago Waterway Management District



Next Scheduled Board Meeting: 5 P.M., Sept. 20, 2006
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USACE Project Information 10 A.M., Aug. 16 2006
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WELCOME To The District

For more than a century East Chicago’s waterways have served, and will continue to serve for the foreseeable future, as working waterfronts to the industries that made this region strong - Steel and Petroleum. Today our waterways are entering a new phase of fundamental transformation. As the single most distinctive geographical feature on the Southern Shores of Lake Michigan, The Canal is again recognized for its beneficial potential. Whether it is for waterborne commerce, commercial development or recreation, the challenge today is to envision a waterway that meets the demographic and economic needs of the coming decades. It also means that development occur in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner.

To this end the District was established by state legislation (IC 8-10-9-5 Sec. 5) in 1994 for the following purposes:

To manage and supervise, in conjunction with other state and federal authorities, the industrial, commercial, and recreational development of the waterways in the city in which the district is formed.
To assist other agencies of local, state, and federal governments to manage, maintain, and promote the use of the waterways in the city in which the district is formed.
To foster use of the canal in an environmentally responsible manner.
To provide for the orderly planning for waterways.
To plan for, develop, and maintain roads, bridges, approaches, locks, gates, and other structures in connection with a waterway within the jurisdiction of the district consistent with the obligations and jurisdiction of other agencies of the federal or state government.
It is the goal of the waterway projects and activities performed under this chapter to improve the commercial and recreational use of waterways in an environmentally sound manner, and to promote the economic development of the city in which the district is located

What's New On Site:

Army Corps to hold Indiana Harbor Project technology information session - (Posted: May 10, 2006)

May 10, 2006—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District will host an information session from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at East Chicago City Hall (Council Chambers/room 203), 4525 Indianapolis Blvd., East Chicago, Ind.

The purpose of the session is to exchange ideas on new or innovative sediment treatment technologies and the possible use of such technology in relation to Indiana Harbor and Canal maintenance dredging and disposal activities.

For more information, contact the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Chicago District, Public Affairs Office, at (312) 846-5331 or the East Chicago Waterway Management District at (219) 391-8535.

CDF Construction Activities - (Posted: March 10, 2006)

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CDF Construction: The "Springfield Belle" has arrived - (Posted: March 6, 2006)

The Springfield Belle is now on site on the northern bank of the St. George branch of the canal and is being prep. It is the first of three phases of treatment of groundwater and dredge water/ CDF precipitation and runoff that will be utilized for this project.

USEPA Mobile Plant (Springfield Plant)

Interim Groundwater Treatment Plant

Permanent Treatment Plant

For a more complete update on the groundwater pumping and treatment activites you can visit the EPA's "On-Site Coordinator." The site provides a pollutiion report along with a description of the springfield belle project, a statement of objectives, the current activities occuring on-site, and planned removal actions. In general, updates occur bi-weekly.

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