Press Releases
Wabash River Enhancement Corporation Receives $1.3 Million in Funding, February 6, 2012
The Wabash River Enhancement Corporation (WREC) announces the receipt of $1,332,900 in funding from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's Section 319 program and our local partners to directly enhance the Wabash River.
Wabash River Enhancement Corporation launches urban costshare program, October 14, 2011
Urban landowners in our target area have a unique opportunity to improve water quality in the Wabash River. Landowners in Lafayette, West Lafayette and most of Tippecanoe County are eligible for assistance of up to 75% of the cost of design and installation of specific green practices.
RIVERFEST celebrates the Wabash River with education, canoe races, and family fun!, June 22, 2011
– A family favorite for over a decade, the Riverfest summer festival will once again celebrate the Wabash River with a day of thrilling canoe races, on‐land fun, and education. Riverfest takes place on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Tapawingo Park in West Lafayette.
Green Tour, Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The second annual Green Tour will take place in Lafayette and West Lafayette on Saturday, May 7, and will provide the opportunity for participants to learn more about “green” practices in their communities. There are ten total tour stops, and each stop will be open from 9:00AM to 1:00PM. Participants can join a guided bike tour or take a self-guided biking, walking, or driving tour. Guided bike tours lead by Virtuous Cycles of Lafayette, leave from Tapawingo Park at 9:00AM and 10:30AM. Green Tour maps will be available at Tapawingo Park Bandshell beginning at 8:30AM and throughout the event. They can also be downloaded at: www.wabashriver.net/green-tour.
Wabash River Enhancement Corporation Open House, April 8, 2011
Concerned about conditions in the Wabash River? Want to know if you can swim, boat, or fish in the river? Need information about what we are doing to improve quality in the river?
Wabash Water Quality Sampling Blitz, April 6, 2011
200 stream sites and 150 volunteers telling us what is going on in our watershed?
Wabash River Enhancement Corporation holding two public meetings, September 18, 2010
WREC has been developing Corridor Master Plans for the Urban (completed last spring) and Rural sections of our Wabash River Corridor, and developing a management plan for the Wabash River watershed (the area that drains into the river). The objective for the corridor master plan (urban and rural sections) is to provide long term direction and guidance for enhancing the Wabash River Corridor. The goal for the watershed management plan is to improve our river’s water quality. The first meeting (October 25) will focus on the watershed management plan project and the second meeting (November 4) will present the Wabash River Corridor Master Plan for the rural section of Tippecanoe County.
Wabash Water Quality Sampling Blitz – 200 stream sites and 150 volunteers telling us what is going on in our watershed?, September 6, 2010
Volunteers will collect water samples from more than 200 stream sites throughout Tippecanoe, Fountain, Warren, and Montgomery counties. Each group of volunteers is responsible for sample collection from three to five stream sites. The sampling area covers the same region in which WREC is currently developing a plan to improve water quality. “A key stage in developing a watershed management plan includes identification of problem areas. The Wabash Sampling Blitz will allow us to identify target areas – where good and poor quality water is present” explains Sara Peel, watershed coordinator.
The Wabash River Enhancement Corporation joins Clear Choices, Clean Water, July 2, 2010
Clear Choices for Clean Water is a campaign to increase awareness about lawn care and its impact on our streams and lakes. Water quality friendly lawn care includes practices such as using phosphorus-free fertilizer, landscaping with native plants, managing yard and pet wastes, and overall lawn reform.
Green Initiatives Tour, November 17, 2009
Landowners will open their back yard, agricultural field, and home to highlight their efforts to improve water quality and the environment. The tour will include four stops each highlighting one aspect which individuals can implement on their own property to reduce impacts to water quality.
Wabash Water Quality Sampling Blitz – 200 stream sites and 150 volunteers telling us what is going on in our watershed?, September 11, 2009
Volunteers will collect water samples from more than 200 stream sites throughout Tippecanoe, Fountain, Warren, and Montgomery counties. Each group of volunteers is responsible for sample collection from three to five stream sites. The sampling area covers the same region in which WREC is currently developing a plan to improve water quality. “A key stage in developing a watershed management plan includes identification of problem areas. The Wabash Sampling Blitz will allow us to identify target areas – where good and poor quality water is present” explains Sara Peel, watershed coordinator.
Watershed Planning to Protect Water Quality in the Wabash River Watershed Management Planning Underway, June 19, 2009
Are you interested in improving water quality in the Wabash River? Do you live upstream of where Big Pine Creek enters the Wabash River? Then this group is for you… join us July 7 th at 7 p.m. at the Warren County Learning Center in the Williamsport Library to learn more, offer your opinion, and provide input into the process.
Watershed Planning to Protect Water Quality—Wabash River Watershed Management Planning Underway, April 6, 2009
Land from 478 square miles drains into the Wabash River in the Greater Lafayette area. Cleaning the river will necessitate appropriate land use practices in this entire area. To determine what practices are appropriate and where they should be located a watershed planning process has been undertaken. Your input in necessary to develop the community-based plan.
Wabash River Enhancement Corporation – Purdue University partnership developed to tackle water quality improvements on the Wabash River, January 20, 2009
The Wabash River Enhancement Corporation (WREC) and the Living Laboratories on the Wabash supported by Purdue University’s Center for the Environment today announced that it has received $749,112 in funding from Indiana Department Environmental Management’s 319 program and local agencies to assist in the evaluation of water quality on the Wabash River. The project also supports the first steps in the development of a Watershed Management Plan for the areas near Lafayette and West Lafayette, IN.