UA Conservation Biology Society

Through , the City is working on a master plan for Lake Nicol and Harris Lake to determine future improvements and understand the community’s current use of the lakes. 🚤

The survey linked below takes under five minutes and you can be entered to win two tickets to the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in exchange for your input! 🎟

Take the survey now at elevatetuscaloosa.com/lakesurvey

City Councilor Raevan Howard will hold a District Two litter cleanup day on Saturday, June 18 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Read more: bit.ly/3aCyIOd

Councilor John Faile of district six is hosting a litter cleanup event on April 16 from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Everyone is welcome at this collaborative community service event. Learn more: bit.ly/3Kj63KX

60 Minutes investigates: Americans fighting for access to sewage disposal Bill Whitaker reports from Alabama, where a public health crisis has, by some estimates, left more than half the impoverished, rural residents in one county with raw sewage running onto their property.

Take a moment to submit a comment to Alabama Department of Environmental Management to convince them that coal ash is environmental hazard that threatens our water quality.

If you're able, please attend this public meeting about it on December 16th: https://www.facebook.com/events/604048870915982?ref=newsfeed

Black Warrior Riverkeeper

Take Action: Tell AL officials to demand coal ash clean up Coal ash is a toxic byproduct of coal-burning power plants. Across Alabama, there are more than 110 million tons of toxic coal ash in unlined pits next to our waterways at nine different sites owned by Alabama Power, TVA and PowerSouth. The utilities’ own data shows that heavy metals are leaking i...

Check out our Fall 2021 Newsletter!

Alabama Power plans on leaving toxic waste near our waterways where pollutants will leach into rivers and groundwater indefinitely. Follow the link below to send comments to ADEM to encourage them to require Alabama Power to remove their toxic waste.

Plant Gorgas Public Hearing on Coal Ash Closure — Alabama's Coal Ash Notice is hereby given that Alabama Power Company submitted to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) an application for the initial issuance of the Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Permit to Close for the Plant Gorgas Ash Pond, Gypsum Pond and Bottom Ash Landfill and CCR Permit

Love to see it!

Help fight litter in Tuscaloosa by joining this litter cleanup!

Are you a member of District 6 or 7 who enjoys a little friendly competition? 😏

Join Councilors Faile and Lanier on Saturday, October 30 for a litter cleanup day! We'll weigh the litter collected in each district to see who cleans up the most! 🗑

More: bit.ly/3lU8AS0

On the weekend of October 9th we set out to Tanglewood Biological Station for another bioblitz! We recorded hundreds of observations across two days of sampling. We even sampled nocturnal animals. Check out our iNaturalist project to see all our observations! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/tanglewood-oct-2021-bioblitz

This past weekend we collected four trash-bags of litter in under an hour of work over a quarter-mile stretch of road. You can help us turn the tide against the environmental and societal damages of litter in several ways. First, don't litter. Second, make sure your trash and recycling is packaged properly when you put it out for pick up. Finally, take a walk around your neighborhood, a local park, or a roadside and pick up litter!

As we wrap up , we'd like to remind you that anything you dump - from oils to soaps to litter - eventually ends up in our lakes. 🚫 🗑️

Thanks for tuning in this week to learn more about how we can in Tuscaloosa! 💧