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 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...
by Justinn Overton | Feb 7, 2022 | Advocacy, Lay Lake, Pictures, Science
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Southern Environmental Law Center filed suit on behalf of Coosa Riverkeeper today in federal court against Newcastle Homes for consistently violating the Clean Water Act in Shelby County. In total, Coosa Riverkeeper has documented over 150...
by Justinn Overton | Feb 1, 2022 | Advocacy, Fish Guide, Lake Neely Henry, Pictures, Science, Wildlife
Gadsden, AL- Conservation and community groups sued the Water Works and Sewer Board of the city of Gadsden, Alabama today for neglecting its duty to maintain public sewers and not properly reporting on sewage pollution that it discharges, in violation of the Clean...
by Justinn Overton | Jan 18, 2022 | Advocacy, Lake Neely Henry, Pictures, Science
Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took critical steps to protect communities and clean water from toxic coal ash pollution by making it clear that utilities must deal with ash sitting in groundwater, groundwater contamination, and threats to...
