State, feds to pay $46M for dredging (Post-Tribune)

8 March 2010, 2:02 am

HAMMOND -- The state and federal governments will pay $46.4 million to restore an additional 1.3 miles of the Grand Calumet River in Hammond, the Post-Tribune has learned. Dredging was already taking place on a 1.1-mile stretch between Columbia Avenue and Hohman Avenue as a result of a previous agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Indiana. The new funding will cover ...... Read More »

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