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- Summer 2023: Coal Ash Hearings, PFAS and Algae Monitoring, Legal & Advocacy Updates, Fall Events
- Fall 2022: How We’re Addressing Nutrients on the Coosa, Swim Guide 2022 Recap, Clean Water Act 101, Fall Events
- Spring 2022: Most Endangered River Status, New AmeriCorps, Swim Guide 2022, Financials
- Winter 2022: Meet the Olive II, Legal Action Updates, Service Learning at Talladega College, Coal Ash Updates, Welcome our Grants Coordinator, and Our 2022 Events!
- Fall 2021: Riverkeeper Reflections, Fall into Fish Guide, Swim Guide 2021 By the Numbers
- Summer 2021: Get the Skinny on Swim Guide Expansion, Fish Consumption Advisory Signs on Choccolocco, Dirt Does Hurt: Intent to Sue Newcastle Homes, Meet our Program Director
- Float Back in Time: Our 10 Year Anniversary Scrapbook
- Early 2020: Animal Rendering Plant Threatens Neely Henry Lake, Fish Guide Earns Respect on Ramps & Nationwide, Riverkeeper Field Notes & Major Updates
- Fall 2019: A Swim Down Memory Lane, Toxic Release Inventory, PCBs and Mercury in Your Catch, Staff Changes (released October 31, 2019)
- Summer 2019: What’s in Your Cannonball, A Little Dirt Does Hurt, Meet our New Riverkeeper
- Winter 2018: Citizen Science Initiative, Temp Track 2019, Trispot Darter: threatened!, 2018 Financials
- Summer 2018: Swim Guide 2018, Average Lake Temperatures
- Winter 2018: Temp Track, Karli Riley, 2017 At a Glance
- Summer 2017: Recent Awards, Swim Guide, Fish Guide
- Winter 2017: Fish Guide, New E.coli Standards
- Summer 2016: Oxford Wastewater Treatment Plant & Swim Guide
- Our First Five Years: 2010-2015
- Summer 2015: Swim Guide, Choccolocco Creek Monitoring Project
- Winter 2015: Toxic Waste in the Coosa River
- Summer 2014: Laura Moore II
- Winter 2014: Goodwin’s Mill Dam Removal
- Fall 2013: Coosa Canoe & Kayak Fishing Tournament Trail
- Spring 2013
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Coosa Riverkeeper is the voice of the Coosa River and its tributaries in Alabama.
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Coal ash is the toxic waste that remains after coal is burned. It contains high concentrations of heavy metals, including mercury, arsenic, selenium, chromium, lead, radium, and other pollutants which are hazardous to human health, wildlife, and our waterways. In humans, these contaminants can cause developmental defects, cancer, and a large range of other illnesses. For decades, utilities have stored coal ash in unlined pits next to rivers and lakes that provide drinking water, recreation, and wildlife habitat. ![]()
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Cap-in-place means removing the water from the coal ash pond, consolidating it, and covering it overtop with a synthetic liner. The unlined Gadsden coal ash pond on Neely Henry Lake was the first in the state to close and be capped in place.![]()
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Many sites across the country where coal ash has been capped in place continue to experience high levels of toxic pollution, and researchers have found cap-in-place can worsen pollution. Despite confirmation of the significant risks of storing coal ash in dangerous, leaking, and polluting pits utilities are planning to leave ash in place at all sites in Alabama rather than excavating and removing it to dry, lined landfills.![]()
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The bottom line is that cap-in-place of coal ash does not work and is not an acceptable solution for Alabama, its citizens, or its waterways.
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