September 2007 E-Newsletter

News/Events/Resources/Festivity

News:

Duck River Dam Lawsuit

Alabama Rivers Alliance, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Friends of the Mulberry Fork, Wild South, and individuals Nelson Brooke, James Robertson, and Paul Perret have entered into a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in federal court.  This lawsuit is in response to the Army Corps reissuing a permit to dam the Duck River that was defeated in 2003. 

Read more:  http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/duck-river-dam-lawsuit-article-from.html

Nuclear Reactor Proposed Near Scottsboro- Public Meeting THIS Tuesday, Sept. 11

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is coming to Rainsville on Tuesday to meet with area residents, “to discuss how the agency will review an expected Combined License (COL) application for new reactors at the Bellefonte site near Scottsboro.” –NRC News

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/nuclear-plant-proposed-near-scottsboro.html

2007 Alabama Department of Public Health Fish Advisories- June/July 2007

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/alabama-department-of-public-health_06.html

EMC Fish Consumption Issues PowerPoint

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/alabama-department-of-public-health.html

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http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/aemc-fish-consumption-issues.html

Group Events:  http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/events.html

River Revival

A river festival benefiting the Alabama Rivers Alliance

Hosted by the Friends of the Locust Fork River

Sunday, September 30, 2007, 1-6

Reminder: Tables available for Watershed and Conservation groups!!!

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/08/river-revival.html

Cahaba Riverwalk

Sunday September 16^th, 2-5

Friends of the Cahaba Riverwalk in Irondale

Cahaba by Moonlight

An Evening with the Cahaba River Society

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/08/cahaba-by-moonlight.html

Shades Creek Cleanup

Annual Cleanup with Friends of Shades Creek

Saturday, September 29^th, 2007

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/08/shades-creek-annual-cleanup.html

Mobile Baykeeper’s 10^th Anniversary Fundraiser

Thursday, October 4^th, 6-8

With Delta Reign and Kenji Bunch, Waterkeeper Alliance President, Steve Fleischli

http://www.mobilebaykeeper.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=96

Resources:

Erik Eckle, veteran River Rally speaker, has created a free resource for water groups on communicating our issues.  Check it out:  http://waterwordsthatwork.com/

"Big Money for Small Organizations" Fundraising Workshop with exciting Andy Robinson, by the Institute for Conservation Leadership in partnership with Alabama Rivers Alliance and Flint River Conservation Association in Huntsville on November 17^th.  Register Now, email lsalter@alabamarivers.org!  http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/big-money-for-small-organizations.html

Corps of Engineers will be hosting a FREE regulatory overview seminar in Fairfield. Open to the public, the seminar will be from 8 am to 5 pm at the Fairfield Civic Center

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/corps-of-engineers-regulatory-seminar.html

IMRivers Map of Alabama’s Watershed Groups:  Update YOUR point on Our Site.

IMRivers GIS data to be mapped with Google Satellite Imagery.  And we’ve put you guys up on the web at: www.imrivers.com/alabamarivers  It’s really great for finding our where your fellow groups are, not to mention including data about your group on the internet! http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/map-of-alabamas-watershed-groups.html

Festivity:

Mobile Baykeeper turns 10!- In their 10 years of hard work, Mobile Baykeeper, formerly Mobile Baywatch, has grown from a staff of all volunteers with no money, to a 6 person staff and annual budget of over $200,000.  Not to mention their successes fighting major oil companies and getting federal laws passed requiring cumulative and secondary impact studies on major road projects!

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/mobile-baykeeper-turns-10.html

New Organic Blends in Higher Ground’s Line of Non-Profit Coffees- Higher Ground Roasters out of Leeds, Alabama, now producing sustainably harvested, organic Black Warrior Riverkeeper Roast and Cahaba River Roast. 

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/09/higher-ground-coffee-roasters-new.html

Please send in your Grassroots Highlights and Events!  We’re producing a quarterly newsletter here at ARA and we need your highlights.  A role of ours is to keep you connected and informed, so if you have something going on, let’s celebrate…

http://alabamariversalliance.blogspot.com/2007/08/grassroots-highlights.html

9-10-07