by Justinn Overton | Oct 10, 2022 | Advocacy, Events, Lakes, Opinion, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide, Wildlife
Dive into our Fall 2022...
by Chad Hoffman | Aug 10, 2022 | Education, Lakes, Swim Guide
What are Septic Tanks? Septic systems are underground wastewater treatment structures, commonly used in rural areas without centralized sewer systems. To treat wastewater from residential plumbing produced by bathrooms, kitchen drains, and laundry, they combine nature...
by Justinn Overton | Jun 13, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Lakes, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide
Dive into our Spring Newsletter! Our 2021 Financials Nutrients on the Coosa Coosa River named 5th Most Endangered River in the US Meet our New Team Members Get the Skinny on Swim Guide 2022 Read our Newsletter Here! Have you seen our new video? It’s been in the...
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 | Feb 24, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Fish Guide, Science, Swim Guide
Algae, harmful algal blooms (HABs), and nutrient loading have been a hot topic as more adverse nutrient outcomes occur in our region, so let’s dive into this issue of algae and nutrients a bit more. Caption: A diagram illustrating the process of eutrophication....
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...