Smith Lake residents embrace watershed management

The seeds of watershed planning have been sown over the past several years in the Smith Lake Watershed at the annual ‘State of the Lake Address’ sponsored by Smith Lake Environmental Preservation Committee, or SLEPC. Alabama Water Watch (AWW) staff annually evaluate...

Join us at the 2010 Tallapoosa Watershed Conference

The 6th Annual State of Our Watershed Conference, The Tallapoosa River Basin will be at the Betty Carol Graham Technology Center at the Central Alabama Community College in Alexander City on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010. This year’s organizers and sponsors include...

New video features evolution of the AWW Program

A Living Downstream video was first produced over a decade ago in VHS format. Recently, the video was reformatted in digital form and updated to reflect the growth and evolution of the AWW Program over the past 18 years, since its inception in 1992. View the video...

H. S. Swingle honored with stream naming

A previously unnamed stream in LeeCounty just north of Auburn, Alabama now bares the name of Homer S. Swingle, founder of the Auburn University Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures. Dr. Swingle was a professor at Auburn University from the 1930's through...

GSAs Marlon Cook presents Unpaved Road Seminar

The SWaMP (Saugahatchee Watershed Management Plan) Project and  Alabama Water Watch were extremely pleased to have Marlon Cook, Director, Groundwater Assessment Program, Geological Survey of Alabama, present results from a six-year GSA study, ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENT...