The White River Report Card is complete!
The White River Alliance led a coalition of partners to create the 2023 White River Report Card, which was released at a community event in late June 2023. IAN has been advising the White River Alliance in the creation of the report card since 2021. The Upper White River Watershed encompasses a 2,720 square mile area within central Indiana, including Indianapolis, and extends across sixteen counties. This first White River Report Card was co-created with over 200 stakeholders from the community, business, industry, government, agricultural, conservation, and utility sectors. In addition to being a natural ecosystem, humans use and depend on the river for drinking water, irrigation, recreation, drainage, industry, wastewater, and many more. The Report Card includes sections for Land, Water, and Community, and includes 16 individual indicators scored for 9 regions within the Upper White River Watershed. The Upper White River received a C on its first report card, with relatively poor scores for Wetlands, Bacteria, and Environmental Burden, but better scores for Education, Aquatic Life, Sediment, and Education.