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DNR Water Funding Includes Grants To Remove Two Lowhead Dams

Last updated on Tuesday, October 30, 2018

(CORYDON) - State officials have awarded $1.2 million for improvements along Indiana’s lakes and rivers, including funding to remove two low-head dams.

The funding for 27 lake and river enhancement projects announced Monday by Indiana's Department of Natural Resources will mostly go toward helping stabilize shorelines and riverbanks.

But it includes about $100,000 each for removing a low-head dam along the Elkhart River in northern Indiana's Elkhart County and another low-head dam in southern Indiana's Harrison County, near Corydon.

The DNR says removing dams that serve no current purpose improves stream habitat, boosts biological diversity and improves river safety for boaters, paddlers, anglers and swimmers.

Low-head dams can be deadly when the waters are high because people can get trapped in the hydraulic action of the water at the dam's base.

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