When Alabama Water Watch was just getting started back in 1992, it operated quite differently than it does today. Bill Deutsch, AWW Director, has been in the picture since the beginning and remembers that first year of Water Watch as exciting but exhausting. People...
2012 River Heroes: Bill Deutsch and Mike Mullen
Many Alabama Water Watch monitors, Association members, and staff participated in the 14th Annual Alabama Water Rally which is hosted each year by the Alabama Rivers Alliance. This year’s Rally took place at Camp Beckwith on beautiful Weeks Bay on March 16th-18th. It...
Radney Elementary wins BEEP statewide environmental ed award
Radney Elementary School’s gifted student program was honored on Friday, March 1, 2012 when the Best Environmental Education Program (BEEP) Award was presented to Radney teacher, Laurie Barrett. The award was presented to Mrs. Barrett by Shirley Farrell, President of...
Water Watcher wins 2012 W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Award
Dick Bronson received the 2012 W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Award at a surprise award ceremony during the Lake Watch of Lake Martin annual meeting at the Elk’s Lodge on Lake Martin on Sunday, February 19th, 2012. The award “seeks to publicly recognize achievements...
Earth Teams receive awards for water monitoring
Students from Geraldine, North Sand Mountain and Sardis high schools recently received awards for their Earth Team projects in water monitoring. Chip Blanton, FFA instructor at Fort Payne High School, trained area students in water quality monitoring techniques...
AWW makes a splash with students at Radney Elementary
AWW personnel traveled to Radney Elementary School in Alexander City in early January to participate in an innovative environmental ed program established between the AWW citizen water monitor group, Lake Watch of Lake Martin, and the school. It has been a big hit...
AWW Biomonitoring Workshop a big hit
On Saturday, December 10th, 2011 a group of enthusiastic citizens braved the chilly but beautiful Saugahatchee Creek to learn how benthic macroinvertebrates or “aquatic bugs” can tell us a great deal about water quality. The type of water monitoring...