Porter County
The Porter County Chapter was founded in 1958 to help create the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. (They succeeded!) Advocating for the Indiana Dunes is still a chapter priority, as is the lakefront and Lake Michigan itself. Since 2012, the chapter has purchased a total of 60 acres adjacent to the new Reynolds’s Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area, which borders the Indiana Dunes Heron Rookery property. These projects will provide access to the river and creek and create an outdoor classroom. The chapter is working to restore wetland, prairie, and forest habitat on this land and will be working with Indiana University to reintroduce brook trout to the streams. Several chapter officers and members are part of organized efforts to create a new National Wildlife Refuge in Kankakee River watershed. Our Family Nature Nights program visits five Chesterton grade schools every spring, and we are expanding to Valparaiso. We are a small chapter committed to conservation and are always looking for new members interested in these or other projects.
Your kit will include a bottle containing 25 nitrate test strips which you can use to test your water source(s) throughout the year. You’ll also receive postcards explaining how to use your nitrate test strips and how to share your Nitrate Watch results on the Clean Water Hub.
Your kit will include four test strips so you can test your waterway throughout the season. You’ll also receive a chart to help you interpret your results and a postcard with instructions for completing a Salt Watch test and reporting your findings.