page_title: Clear Creek (Salt Creek tributary)
section_title: Water quality issues
hierarchical_section_title: Clear Creek (Salt Creek tributary) / Water quality issues
caption_attribution_description: English: Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant on the south side of Bloomington, near SR 37. The treated effluent from here goes to Clear Creek.
context_page_description: Clear Creek is an American creek in Monroe County, Indiana. Flowing in the general south-western and southern direction, it is a tributary of Salt Creek, which in its turn flows into the East Fork of Indiana's White River.
  Clear Creek drains about 2/3 of the city of Bloomington. Clear Creek flows roughly in the west-south-westerly direction across the campus of Indiana University, passing in front of its major landmark, Indiana Memorial Union. On campus, the creek is known as the Jordan River, named so after David Starr Jordan, the president of Indiana University and later of Stanford.
  Clear Creek crosses downtown Bloomington via underground pipes. It emerges to the surface near the southern edge of the downtown, and flows south across the southern half of Bloomington. After leaving the city limits, the creek flows through Clear Creek Town, and Clear Creek Township, both of which are named after the creek. Despite its name, Clear Creek Town is not in Clear Creek Township, but in the neighboring Perry Township.
  Clear Creek flows into Salt Creek near the southern border of Monroe County, south of Harrodsburg and a short distance downstream from the dam of Lake Monroe.
context_section_description: Besides the street runoff from Bloomington, Clear Creek also receives the effluent from the city's Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant.
  After an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in the Indiana Memorial Union in 1978, CDC bacteriologists discovered a new bacterial species in a sample of water taken from the "Jordan River" in front of the IMU. They named it  Legionella jordanis after the river. Later, the bacterium was found at other sites in the country as well.
caption: Dillman Road Wastewater Treatment Plant, a major source of water for the lower course of Clear Creek
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