Glynn Wilson Fog in Autumn on The Locust Fork River In another challenge to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s failure to protect the purity of the state’s waterways, the Southern Environmental Law Center today petitioned for a hearing on the permit issued last month for a 3,255-acre coal mine in Blount County. The proposed…
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Locust Fork River Run '09
Glynn Wilson Lee Isaacs paddles with ease over the shoals of the Locust Fork River Saturday along with the Friends of the Locust Fork environmental group on section 6 of the river from Highway 13 to the Blaylock Bridge. I posted a few photos on Facebook at this link. Meanwhile, I’m too tired and sun…
Land on the Locust Fork Submitted to Forever Wild Program
The Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Friends of the Locust Fork River have submitted a nomination for 3,200 acres along the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Jefferson County and Blount Counties to be protected as public property by the Alabama Forever Wild Program. The property, currently owned by the Birmingham Water Works…
Environmental Groups Settle Tire-Pollution Case
The Black Warrior Riverkeeper and the Friends of the Locust Fork environmental groups have settled their lawsuit against Metro Recycling for polluting the Locust Fork River with pollution from a used tire landfill in Blount County, Alabama. U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler approved the settlement requiring Metro Recycling to cease illegal discharges of pollutants,…
