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  • October 2023

  • Sat 14
    October 14, 2023 @ 9:00 am

    Cahaba Riverkeeper Tire Rodeo

    Cahaba Riverkeeper is hosting a community effort to pull tires from the Cahaba River! The Tire Rodeo will consist of 3 different routes and conclude with an afterparty at Oversoul [...]

  • Sat 21
    October 21, 2023

    Guided Overnight Canoe Tour in Perry County with Cahaba River Society

    Old Cahawba Archaeological Park 9518 Cahaba Rd, Orrville, AL, United States

    Register with CRS to join them for this awesome trip! Below Centreville, the Cahaba River is much wider and more meandering than the stretches in the central and northern regions [...]

  • May 2024

  • Sat 11
    May 11, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Mother’s Day Paddle with Friends of the Locust Fork

    Taylor Riverside Park ridge on CR 26 and Dunn Ln, Riverside, AL, United States

    You are cordially invited to join Tammy Mason and Indya Guthrie, FLFR guides, for a paddle on the Locust Fork River from the new public river access at Taylor Riverside [...]

  • Sat 18
    May 18, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

    Cahaba Lily Festival in West Blocton

    Cahaba Lily Center 1012 Main Street, West Blocton, AL, United States

    Lily Fest is an annual celebration of the Cahaba lily at the Cahaba Lily Center in West Blocton. Registration begins at 8 am. Additional information is available on the festival website. The [...]

  • Sat 25
    May 25, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Co Rd 24, West Blocton, AL 35184, USA, United States

    Join the Cahaba River Society in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge as we visit Hargrove Shoals, the largest known Cahaba lily shoals in the world. The Hargrove Shoals trip [...]

    $20 – $40
  • Sun 26
    May 26, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Co Rd 24, West Blocton, AL 35184, USA, United States

    Join the Cahaba River Society in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge as we visit Hargrove Shoals, the largest known Cahaba lily shoals in the world. The Hargrove Shoals trip [...]

    $20 – $40
  • June 2024

  • Sat 1
    June 1, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Co Rd 24, West Blocton, AL 35184, USA, United States

    Join the Cahaba River Society in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge as we visit Hargrove Shoals, the largest known Cahaba lily shoals in the world. The Hargrove Shoals trip [...]

    $20 – $40
  • Sun 2
    June 2, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba Lily Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge Co Rd 24, West Blocton, AL 35184, USA, United States

    Join the Cahaba River Society in the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge as we visit Hargrove Shoals, the largest known Cahaba lily shoals in the world. The Hargrove Shoals trip [...]

    $20 – $40
  • Wed 12
    June 12, 2024 AL Scenic River Trail Summer Paddling Series 2024

    AL Scenic River Trail Summer Paddling Series 2024

    Join the Alabama Scenic River Trail for their 2024 ASRT Summer Paddling Series! This group paddle series is designed to connect paddling enthusiasts from across Alabama. These fun get togethers [...]

  • Tue 18
    June 18, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm Moonlight Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Moonlight Canoe Trip Series with Cahaba River Society

    Hwy 280 Cahaba Boat Launch Cahab River Road and Riverview Road, Birmingham, AL, United States

    Head out for a moonlit paddle with Cahaba River Society! We paddle for about an hour upstream, attempting to stay quiet so that we can see all there is to [...]

    $40
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About ARA
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama’s water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Click here to read a summary of our 2023 – 2027 Strategic Plan.
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ACTION ALERT! Tell Congress to protect the Clean W ACTION ALERT! Tell Congress to protect the Clean Water Act by voting NO on the Permit Act TODAY! 

The PERMIT Act is an effort to attack our nation’s most important and successful pollution control law, the Clean Water Act. This bill will eliminate protections that have helped clean up America’s rivers, creeks, streams, lakes, and oceans. This legislation would prevent EPA from developing accurate water quality criteria, weaken technology standards for water treatment, take away states’ abilities to enforce their own water quality standards on federal projects, allow polluters to shirk responsibility for cleaning up their discharges, allow more pesticides to contaminate our waterways, and give the EPA administrator unlimited authority to remove Clean Water Act protections from any waterway in the country. These impacts are just the tip of the iceberg in this dirty bill, and we need to make sure that Alabama’s Congressional delegation knows that all of our rivers, lakes, streams and bays deserve to be protected from pollution that threatens human and environmental health!

Send your personalized letter: alabamarivers.org/permit-act or from the link in bio

#permitact #CleanWaterAct #AlabamaRivers #WaterIsLife #DefendRivers
On Giving Tuesday, we invite you to consider donat On Giving Tuesday, we invite you to consider donating to the DRIFT Fund. In case you are not familiar, the DRIFT Fund is a project of Alabama Beer Company. Managed by the Alabama Rivers Alliance and supported by a committee that includes the Alabama Scenic River Trail, Waterkeepers Alabama, and Alabama Cup Races, this fund is made possible through a portion of sales of Alabama LIGHT Beer. 

A gift to the DRIFT fund supports many organizations at once and primarily local, community based organizations where your dollars go even further!

We are proud to announce that since launching, the DRIFT Fund has raised $13,239, and has donated $10,988 to NINE organizations across the state, including Friends of Shades Creek, BlackBelt Women Rising, Huntsville Environmental Coalition, Village Creek Society and more. 

Today, on Giving Tuesday, please help us build the fund back up to start 2026 ready to support more awesome and worthy organizations working to protect their rivers and streams! Learn more at AlabamaRivers.org/DRIFT
MOBILE! We'll see you this evening with the NEW #S MOBILE! We'll see you this evening with the NEW #SouthernExposure Films at the @crescenttheater! Join ARA and @sierraclubal to see these short documentaries celebrating special people and nature in Alabama, while discovering hidden treasures and exploring complex issues. 

See the trailers and more info from our link in bio!

#MobileAL #Fairhope #WaterIsLife #DefendRivers #AlabamaRivers
We are so thankful to @blackbeltwr and @senatorrob We are so thankful to @blackbeltwr and @senatorrobstewart who have been on the ground supporting the community of Marion as the town lost access to water. We've been talking with them to see how ARA can help. A huge thank you to @alabamabeerco and our DRIFT Fund committee for their immediate agreement to provide emergency funding for BBWR to purchase water for the community during the outage. We will continue to be in touch with community leaders to see how to help more in the long term!

#WaterIsLife #Marion #MarionWater #BlackBeltWomenRising #AlabamaBeerCo #AlabamaLight #DRIFTFund #DefendRivers #MarionAL
UNIONTOWN! Tomorrow evening at the Rec Center! Joi UNIONTOWN! Tomorrow evening at the Rec Center! Join ARA, BlackBelt Women Rising, Senator Robert Stewart, SELC and more for the Public Meeting to learn more about the proposed pipeline project (SSE4) that puts new methane gas pipelines in 10 Alabama counties, including Perry County. See maps of exactly where the new pipelines would go and learn about concerns that may impact your property and your community. You'll be able to write and submit your comments then and there!

Learn more at the link in bio or at AlabamaRivers.org/pipeline
Montgomery! We can’t wait to see you tomorrow even Montgomery! We can’t wait to see you tomorrow evening with the NEW Southern Exposure Films at the @clovercapri ! 

Join ARA and @friendsofthealabamariver for the FREE public screening of the NEW Southern Exposure Films! These short documentaries, created this summer, celebrate special people and nature in Alabama, while discovering hidden treasures and exploring complex issues

Thursday, November 20
at the Capri Theatre
Mix & Mingle at 5:30 pm | Films start at 6
Concession stand will be available!
Q&A + Discussion After 

For more information about the films + filmmakers, please visit www.alabamarivers.org/se-montgomery
It was a long morning, but the Bessemer City Counc It was a long morning, but the Bessemer City Council heard from many concerned citizens about the plans for a MASSIVE data center bordering Bessemer and McCalla. Ultimately, the Council voted 5-2 in favor of the zoning change to allow for the development of data center.

We want to thank Councilmembers Cleo King and Donna Thigpen for listening to each and every community member and voting NO on this monster of a project.

By greenlighting this project while ignoring serious questions and public records requests, the Bessemer City Council has turned its back on the very communities it is supposed to serve. We remain confident that this project will not come to fruition in its current form, and ARA will support neighbors in their continuing fight to ensure that their questions are answered, and their homes, livelihoods, and communities are protected. Stay tuned!
Bessemer residents! The LAST CHANCE to have your v Bessemer residents! The LAST CHANCE to have your voice heard about the proposed data center, "Project Marvel", is this Tuesday at 9 am (Nov 18) at the Bessemer City Council meeting at City Hall (1700 3rd Avenue N). Don't let the final vote happen without YOU and YOUR VOICE.

We'll see you there with our partners at Black Warrior Riverkeeper, NAACP, SELC, The People's Justice Council, and GASP!

Please share with friends and neighbors in Bessemer. See our link in bio for more info!

#Bessemer #McCalla #DataCenters #MinusAI #ProjectMarvel #BessemerAL #bessemeralabama
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