December 2007 E-Newsletter

Alerts/Training/Grant/Job

Action Alerts:

Cancer Risk Level Meeting, Tomorrow 11-1 at ADEM in Montgomery

The Alabama Environmental Management Commission will be discussing, and perhaps will vote to accept or reject, petitions to reduce the allowable levels of carcinogens at its next meeting on Dec. 14.  From:  Michael William Mullen, Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper 

For more info contact ARA at (205)322-6395 or esalter@alabamarivers.org

Mine Meeting tonight! 6:30, Cordova’s Union Grove Church

Comments due tomorrow, December 15^th!  A mine on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River in Walker County has been proposed directly across from the Birmingham Water Works drinking water intake valve, where the mine is asking to release treated runoff.  Nearly 2,000 acres of land along the Mulberry Fork will be mined for coal, creating 29 wastewater outfalls.  The mine's permit application can be seen using this link: http://www.adem.state.al.us/PublicNotice/Nov/NPDES/AL0079162.pdf 

How to comment:  write to the ADEM contact listed on the notice, Darby Clark and

identify the NPDES number on the first page of your comments.  For more info contact: Black Warrior RIVERKEEPER® (205) 458-0095

www.blackwarriorriver.org

Training:

Water Chemistry Training, January 19^th, 9-4

To sign up: (use Internet Explorer to open link) https://fp.auburn.edu/icaae/WorkshopRegD.aspx?ID1=175&Ct=1

Grants:

Does your local government need help in its planning???

Call for Projects - Community Planning Assistance Grant Program - Submit ASAP

The Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham (RPCGB) announces its Community Planning Assistance Grant Program to provide local governments (county or municipal) within Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby and Walker Counties with affordable community planning services.  For more Info:  contact Kay Argo at (205) 264-8421 or via email at kargo@rpcgb.org

Job Announcement:

Black Warrior Riverkeeper seeking full-time Staff Attorney 

How to apply: Submit a cover letter, resume, short writing sample, and references to nbrooke@blackwarriorriver.org
Application deadline: January 10, 2008. 

More info:  www.blackwarriorriver.org

Tip: 

From the Mobile Press Register:

ALDOT officials also said the department has added nine erosion control employees, one in each of the regional offices spread around the state, and would make erosion control a top priority.

12-13-07