BURKET - Over the next year, Palestine Lake and the surrounding watershed will be studied. The diagnostic study results from a $37,800 grant this year from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife's Lake and River Enhancement Program.Thursday night, Dr.Gwen White, DNR LARE aquatic biologist, and Sara Peel, project manager and aquatic ecologist with JFNew, spoke to the Palestine Lake Association and other interested property owners about the program. LARE focuses on problem prevention.Its purpose is to ensure the continued viability of Indiana's publicly accessible lakes, streams and reservoirs, according to information provided by White.Program goals include controlling inflows of eroded soil and associated nutrients, and, where appropriate, forestalling or reversing degradation from these inflows through remedial actions.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016