Lilly Center expands its approach with numerous water quality initiatives
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By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WINONA LAKE — The Lilly Center for Lakes and Streams has built up a wealth of data and research over the past 15 years and is now embarking on a new effort in Kosciusko County.
The Grace College-based organization recently unveiled plans to go beyond its bread and butter — educational outreach, in-depth research, and occasional response efforts when toxic environmental issues surface — and begin focusing on implementing solutions to local water quality problems.
“We know what the problems are in our lakes. We also, from our scientific understanding as an organization, know what the most strategic solutions are so now we’re excited to allocate more of our resources towards fixing those problems that have come up,” said Nate Bosch, the Creighton Brothers Endowed director for the Lilly Center for Lakes and Streams.
Lilly has already developed working relationships with state-level organizations such as the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the Department of Natural Resources, along with local groups including the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the Soil and Water Conservation District, The Watershed Foundation and the Wawaee Area Conservancy Foundation, and many of the local lake organizations.
“We want to come alongside these partners and implement some of these fixes,” he said.
The Lilly Center is developing proposals for individual lakes and will soon begin unveiling some proposals.
Some of the ideas are geared toward getting some quick results for the sake of seeing overall momentum gain some ground.
Bosch said they’ve been talking directly with lake groups about their plans.
His message to lakes organizations was simple:
“We’ve got this list of solutions. We know we can’t tackle all of them all at once immediately so what are sme of the low-hanging fruit … that we want to implement first, and then as we build that momentum, we can continue on with some of the other solutions,” Bosch said.
Bosch spoke with News Now Warsaw for this week’s In the Know, the public affairs show you can hear every weekend on Kensington Digital Media radio stations.
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