Swim Guide 2022: Where We’re Testing & Our Interns

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Swim Guide is back! And bigger than ever to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act!

Coosa Riverkeeper is expanding their summer water quality monitoring program, Swim Guide. Every week from Memorial Day to mid-September, Coosa Riverkeeper will be testing popular recreation sites across the Coosa River, its lakes, and creeks for harmful pathogens like E.coli and other water quality parameters. This year in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act, Coosa Riverkeeper is expanding its free water quality monitoring program to 50 sites in 12 counties!

Where We’re Testing This Summer

Meet Our 2022 Swim Guide Interns

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Are Coosa anglers adequately informed about fish consumption advisories?

With our 2022 Creel Survey now underway, we wanted to share our most recent survey analysis. This analysis was done using combined data from our 2020 & 2021 creel surveys, specifically of anglers who eat fish from the Coosa. To quantify this subgroup, that’s about...

Unprecedented Analysis Reveals PFAS Contamination in the Coosa River Shows Shocking Levels of Contamination

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...

Now in Spanish – Toll-Free Fish Consumption Advisory Hotline

Did you know that Coosa Riverkeeper hosts a statewide toll-free hotline for fish consumption advisories? Even better, the hotline has now been updated to include the advisories in Spanish! The Alabama Department of Public Health, the state agency in charge of...