by Justinn Overton | Oct 18, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Fishing, Lake Neely Henry, Pictures, Science
Today, Waterkeeper Alliance released a groundbreaking new analysis of American waterways that sounds the alarm on a PFAS pollution emergency. In a test of 114 waterways from across the country, 83% were found to contain at least one type of PFAS—dangerous per- and...
by Chad Hoffman | Oct 5, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Lake Jordan, Lake Mitchell, Lake Neely Henry, Lakes, Lay Lake, Logan Martin Lake, Pictures, Science
The Problem: Too Many Nutrients When you hear the word pollution, what do you think about? Do you visualize people dumping their garbage and week-old food scraps into the river? Is it a discharge pipe, pumping suspiciously dark liquid into a stream of clear, untouched...
by Justinn Overton | May 16, 2022 | Lake Jordan, Lake Mitchell, Lake Neely Henry, Lakes, Lay Lake, Logan Martin Lake, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide
Swim Guide is back! And bigger than ever to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act! Learn about the Clean Water Act Coosa Riverkeeper is expanding their summer water quality monitoring program, Swim Guide. Every week from Memorial Day to mid-September,...
by Justinn Overton | Apr 19, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Fishing, Lake Jordan, Lake Mitchell, Lake Neely Henry, Lakes, Lay Lake, Logan Martin Lake, Opinion, Pictures, Science
American Rivers today named the Coosa River among America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2022, highlighting the threat that industrial agricultural pollution poses to clean water, communities and local economies. Millions of tons of chicken feces from billions of...
by Fish Guide Coordinator | Mar 18, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Events, Fish Guide, Lake Neely Henry
Join us at The Pitman Theatre for a Southern Exposure film screening on March 31st, 2022 from 6 to 8 pm! This event is free to the public and will be fun for the whole family! Showing will be five awesome environmental short films from both 2020 and 2021. Each film...
by Justinn Overton | Feb 22, 2022 | Advocacy, Lake Neely Henry, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide
Coosa Riverkeeper has been conducting additional bacteriological sampling along the entirety of Big Canoe Creek for the past few weeks to investigate the large number of high E.coli alerts we issued last summer. We wanted to share with you our findings and our next...
