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8 Mile Creek Watershed Source Assessment

The Alabama Rain Barrel Project is an educational and on-the-ground project to help conserve water and protect water quality. An educational powerpoint and instructions are included.

Coosa River Basin State of Our Watershed Conference

The Coosa River CWP hosted its first Coosa River Basin State of Our Watershed Conference on October 13, 2011 in Pell City, Alabama. With 96 basin stakeholders in attendance, attendees learned from various presentations highlighting the Coosa River and networked with others with similar interests.

This project has been suspended due to lack of funding - erosion challenges remain. Project underway to determine causes of excessive riverbank erosion and what might be done to help minimize future property loss

Moore's Mill Creek Stream Restoration

Stream restoration using Rosgen methodology has been completed on Moore’s Mill Creek in Auburn, Alabama.

A total of 28 individual structures were installed as part of the project, including 11 rock vanes, 5 log vanes, one boulder cluster, 5 root wads, one cross vane, one single-wing deflector, three double-wing deflectors and one rock J-hook. In addition, a bankfull bench cut was installed along 2,492 linear feet of the stream, for a total of 5,756 linear feet of streambank stabilized as part of this project.

Rain Barrel Workshop Held

The Choctawhatchee-Pea & Yellow Rivers CWP and the Conecuh-Sepulga & Blackwater Rivers CWP along with the Covington County Master Gardeners sponsored a “make & take” Rain barrel workshop on July 26.

The ACWP has teamed up with Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education (St. Paul, MN), Discovering Alabama (Dr. Doug Phillips and the University of Alabama) and basin partners to produce a web-based "Virtual Field Trip" and interactive DVD Rom for Alabama residents ages 8 and up focusing on Alabama's multiple river basins.

The outstanding educator resource, Waters to the Sea: The Chattahoochee River, is available FREE to teachers within the Chattahoochee River Basin. Designed for grades 3 - 8, with over 12 hours of interactive content and video clips, the program is correlated to the AL Course of Study in science and social studies for easy use in the classroom.