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ACTION ALERT: once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to help shape the water policy of the future
Subcommittees of Joint Legislative Committee for Water Policy and Management are open to the public. We encourage anyone with an interest in water resources to sign up for one or more committees. There needs to be more participation from recreation, conservation, and preservation interests.
Alabama Water Agenda Volunteers:
As you saw from our announcement last week, the Joint Legislative Committee for Water Policy and Management had their first major public meeting on Monday. The focus of this first meeting was largely on major economic interests in our waters such as agriculture, industry, power generation, navigation, and municipal supply.
The Committee stated that the next meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, September 23, will focus on recreation and conservation issues. We don’t know yet who will speak at the next meeting, which will be held at Guntersville State Park.
The members of the legislative committee are: Sen. Kim Benefield, Chair (D-13), Rep Greg Canfield, Vice chair (R-48), Sen. Parker Griffith (D-7), Sen Ted Little (D-4), Sen. Wendell Mitchell (D-30), Sen. Arthur Orr (R-3), Sen. Quinton Ross (D-26), Sen. Harri Anne Smith (R-29), Rep. Chad Fincher (R-102), Rep. Thomas Jackson (D-68), Rep. Richard Laird (D-37), Rep. AJ McCampbell (D-7), Rep, Frank McDaniel (D-26), Rep Jeff McLaughlin (D-27). Contact information for each committee member is available on-line at http://www.legislature.state.al.us.
Four subcommittees were announced at the meeting on Monday: agriculture/industry/transportation/recreation (Chair Sen. Mitchell); water management mechanisms/strategy/policy (Chair Rep. McLaughlin); conservation/efficiency/water quality/drought management (Chair Rep. McCampbell); and water resource assessment studies and data collection and storage (Chair Sen. Orr).
These subcommittees are open to the public. We encourage anyone with an interest in water resources to sign up for one or more committees. There needs to be more participation from recreation, conservation, and preservation interests.
The first meeting of the conservation/efficiency subcommittee has been scheduled for August 19th at the State House.
To sign up for a subcommittee or to receive announcements of committee and subcommittee meetings, please contact Pamela Averrett at 334-242-7875 or Pamela.averrett@alsentate.gov.
Thank you to Save Our Sougahatchee, Lake Watch of Lake Martin, Lake Martin HOBOs, Sierra Club, Southern Environmental Law Center, Conservation Alabama, Green Resource Center, The Nature Conservancy, and Alabama Water Watch for attending the meeting and for signing up for subcommittees. Thank you also to several concerned citizens that sacrificed their time to attend the meeting.
This may very well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to help shape the water policy of the future. To help the Alabama Rivers Alliance protect your water resources, please consider participating in this unique process. You don’t need any expertise – just your love of Alabama’s greatest natural resource: our waters.
Thanks for all you do for our rivers.
April
April Hall, P.E.
Watershed Protection Specialist
Alabama Rivers Alliance
2027 Second Avenue North, Suite A
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
(205) 322-6395
fax 322-6397
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