A restoration project carried out by the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission features the installation of levees to reduce flooding and the restoration of native vegetation in an area of the West Branch of the Little Calumet River in Lake County, Illinois. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
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