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City Offices closed for Indiana Primary Election
Sunday, May 5, 2024
All Goshen City offices will be closed on Tuesday, May 7, for the Indiana Primary Election. The city holiday will NOT affect trash collection. more
Plymouth Avenue and 10th Street closure begins May 6
Friday, May 3, 2024
The intersection of Plymouth Avenue and 10th Street will be closed starting Monday, May 6, and continue until Friday, May 10th. Niblock Excavating will be reconstructing sanitary structures in the intersection of Plymouth Avenue and 10th Street during this time as part of the 10th Street Reconstruction... more
BOIL ORDER: College Avenue and Westwood Road
Monday, April 22, 2024
This boil order has been canceled. On Monday, April 22, a boil order was issued for the area south of College Avenue to Westwood Road. This area includes Goshen Hospital, part of the Historic Racemere Peninsula Neighborhood, and Goshen College west of 9th Street. A map of the affected area can be... more
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Park Board Meeting
Today, 4:00pm
Public may join in person or virtually by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89736482570
Indiana Primary Election -- City Offices Closed
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Board of Works
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 4:00pm
To join the webinar please copy and paste this link on your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88469251269
July 2016 Stormwater Toolbox Newsletter
Click here for the July 2016 Stormwater Toolbox Newsletter. (Return to the Stormwater Management Home Page)
The above YouTube video "Nutrient Pollution" comes from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. For more information on how to reduce nutrient pollution visit the EPA's Nutrient Pollution website.
Clear Choices Clean Water also has an excellent Phosphorus Free Fertilizer Commercial that shows how what we do in our yard can affect our local water sources.
To go beyond the information in this month's Stormwater Toolbox Newsletter check out the following articles:
on Clear Choices Clean Water: 
- Healthy Soils Pledge
- Native Plants & Gardens Pledge
- Lawn Fertilizer Pledge
- Water Conservation Pledge
- Clean Water Superhero Pledge (Just for Kids)
- Pet & Other Poo Pledge
- Septic Maintenance Pledge
- Volunteer Service Pledge
on Deadzones:
- Dead Zones
- Dead zones haunt Green Bay as manure fuels algae blooms
- Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping Project - Hypoxia
- Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
- NOAA - Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory - Great Lakes HABs and Hypoxia
on Eutrophication:
- Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences, and Controls in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Just Like Guacamole
- Lake Erie Expected to Have Algae Bloom (July 7, 2016)
- 10 Things to Know About Florida's Harmful Algae Blooms (July 18, 2016)
on Nuisance Canada Goose Management"
- Indiana DNR - Nuisance Canada Goose Management
on Streamside Buffers:
- Tennessee Urban Riparian Buffer Handbook - September 2015
(Return to the Stormwater Management Home Page)