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Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation has received $200,000 from the Great Lakes Commission for a Franke Park project, the department announced Thursday.

The manure and bedding material removed from a bedded pack barn can be a valuable nutrient source for crops, but it is bulky.

Wetlands project's 3rd phase revealed To help drainage, clean up Maumee near Hessen Cassel ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette The start of the third phase of a project to improve drainage, prevent flooding, expand a wetlands and keep pollution out of the Maumee River was announced Wednesday at a news conference by Fort Wayne city and regional environmental officials. The event was scheduled as a groundbreaking for the next phase of a project near Hessen Cassel Road but was moved indoors to Citizens Square because of a steady rain. The project includes installation of a two-stage ditc...

By Lea Mitchell A newly funded project in Ohio’s Ottawa Soil and Water Conservation District aims to reduce water nutrients and sediments that flow into Lake Erie, causing excessive growth of algae. With a bit of help, the Great Lakes Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Program provides grants to local and state governments and nonprofit organizations to install erosion and sediment control practices in the Great Lakes Basin. The commission was established in 1955 to address threats to the Great Lakes, and the nutrient reduction program began decades later. “The Great Lakes Commission issued ...