Today is the FIRST day of Swim Guide 2025 and the start of our 10th YEAR of sampling so you can get the skinny before you dip! Want our Swim Guide alerts straight to your phone? Text SWIMGUIDE to 205-526-4819 or find them at CoosaRiver.org/SwimGuide! (fb)

Thank you to Cynthia Gould ABC 3340 for this great coverage about our notice of intent to sue that was filed yesterday thanks to SELC. “The stacks at Plant Gadsden may be gone, but Alabama Power’s legacy of pollution remains,” said Justinn Overton, the executive director and riverkeeper at Coosa Riverkeeper. “Alabama Power cannot knowingly leave a leaking coal ash pond in place upstream from Gadsden’s drinking water intake and booming ecotourism developments and call themselves good neighbors.” (fb)