Our Current Projects | Alabama Clean Water Partnership

ACWP Stream Prioritization Project

The ACWP, in partnership with the Natural Resources Conservation Service – Alabama, is soliciting stakeholder input through the ACWP’s neutral stakeholder forum in order to produce a list of prioritized Alabama streams needing restoration and/or protection. Stream lists are currently being compiled at the 12 digit hydrologic code (HUC) level in each of the ten ACWP delineated river basins, as well as at the statewide level. Once complete, the prioritized lists will be used to focus future watershed protection efforts across the state.

Alabama Rain Barrel Project Workshop

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.

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.

PSA-Water Runs Downhill

The Facilitator coordinated the production of a public service announcement video on nonpoint source pollution targeting the general public. The PSA is funded by the AWCP with funds from the US Fish & Wildlife Service Strategic Habit Unit project.

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.