1. Upper Wabash River Basin Commission 319 Grant for Phase 2 161,079 acres along the tributaries of the Headwater of the Wabash River

2. What is Monitored?  Water Temperature  Dissolved Oxygen  Biochemical Oxygen Demand  pH  Orthophosphate  Nitrate/Nitrate  Turbidity  E. Coli  Volume of Water (Depth, Width, & Velocity)  Habitat  Benthic Macroinvertebrates

4. Why Monitor Water Quality?

6. What cause poor water quality? How to improve the water quality?

7. Where will we test?

9. 100 E 1000 N (Eight Mile)

10. Rose Road & 100 E (Wabash)

11. 200 N (Rock Creek)

12. Improvements? Yes! More to come with your help!

13. Site 2: Wabash River @ State Line

14. Site 10: Loblolly 125 W

17. Where the eagles fly Bluffton resident Larry Piety recently captured with his camera this mating pair of bald eagles nesting by the Wabash River near Markle. (Photo submitted) Bluffton News-Banner