Northern Lake County Environmental Partnership
Working to learn more about how the environment affects health in Northern Lake County in order to promote clean environments and good health
About the project
The Northern Lake County Environmental Partnership
includes local community members as well as researchers and students from local universities. We also work with community organizations and leaders. We are working together to learn more about pollution and health in Northern Lake County, IN. We are studying many pollutants including particles in the air (soot), gas or fumes (similar to gasoline), metals (including lead), and more.
We are going to compare these with rates of general health, cognition or thinking, and mental health.
Project updates
Results of soil testing near Federated Metals Superfund Site
Thank you to everyone who brought in soil samples. Overall results and individual kit results can be found here.
Thanks to our students & study staff!
We want to thank our amazing students & staff from our many collaborating universities for their dedicated work on this project!
Thanks to our community advisory board!
We want to thank our dedicated community advisory board members for their advice and support!
- Juan Andrade
- Suzanne Chick
- David Dabertin
- Susan Duncan
- Kimmie Gordon
- Freida Graves
- Grace Tafolla
Contamination in Lake George
Our team members recently published work about microplastic pollution in George Lake. Read more about this in the Northwest Indiana Times and the research paper.