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Fall Creek assessments will shed light

on water quality

Scientists from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) Office of Water Quality were in Millersville last spring to do limited sampling of fish and macroinvertebrates (think bugs and snails and the like) in Fall Creek. Mostly, they were working on calibrating electrofishing equipment prior to the start of their field season. Formal sampling was scheduled to happen upstream sometime in last fall and the study results (2018 publishing), will show what's in the waters coming into Millersville's stretch of Fall Creek.

The sampling, along with evaluation of habitats and water chemistry tests, measure the effects of pollution or other issues that can threaten the ecological health of our watershed.