About Us

• Accomplishments
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• 1999
• 1998
• 1997-1994

• Board of Directors

• Founders' Statement
• Accomplishments

• Jobs and Internships
• Printable Version of Job Description
• Printable Version of Internship Description

• Mission and History

• Office Locations
• Driving Direction to Atlanta office
• Driving Directions to Headwaters Office

• Staff
• Sally Bethea-Bio
• Christina Cooper-Bio
• Bill Crawford-Bio
• Mary O. Harrison-Bio
• Darcie Holcomb-Bio
• Mary Manson-Bio
• Tammy Morrissey-Bio
• Lynn Naylor - Bio
• Harlan Trammell-Bio
• Jason Ulseth-Bio

• The Waterkeeper Alliance

Our River

• Environmental Setting
  

• Recreation
• Angler’s Pocket Guide
• Corps of Engineers Lakes-Lanier and West Point
• Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
• Riverkeeper Store
• River Conditions
• Boat Ramps
• Fishing
• Consumption Guidelines
• Angler’s Pocket Guide
• Canoeing and Kayaking
• Sections of the Upper River that We Like
  

• River Facts
  

• River Uses
• Recreation
  

• Water Quality
• UCR Water Quality Monitoring Programs

Get Involved

• Action Alerts
• Join us and get involved!

• Become a Member

• Gift Membership

• Establish a Memorial Fund
• Give a gift in memorial

• Events
• Back to the Chattahoochee River Race and Festival
• Cleanups
• Membership Meeting
• Patron Appreciation Dinner
• River Adventures
• River Revival

• Planned Giving
• Planned Giving Brochure

• Report a Problem

• River Cleanups
• Register to Volunteer

• Store

• Volunteer
• Register to Volunteer

Programs

• Adopt-A-Stream

• Education

• From Greenscapes to Hardscapes

• Get the Dirt Out Campaign
• Executive Summary of Report to EPA
• Get the Dirt Out Website
• Fox News Covers UCR’s Get the Dirt Out Campaign
• See the video

• Headwaters
• Chattahoochee River Headwater Riparian Restoration and Education Project
• Source Water Protection Project in Habersham County
• Biodiversity: Assessment of Threatened Fish Species
• West Fork Little River Restoration Project in Hall Country
• Chattahoochee National Forest
• Riparian buffers
• Study to evaluate nutrient trading policies
• Monitoring
• Headwaters Education Programs
• Riparian Restoration & Education Project/Soque River Restoration Project
• What Are Riparian Buffer Zones?

• Legal
• City of Atlanta case
• Activist Groups
• Litigation
• Volunteer
• Legal Internship

• Legislative Program

• Monitoring
• BacteriALERT Program in the National Recreation Area
• Lake Lanier Nutrient Monitoring
• White County Bacteria Monitoring Program

• Report a Problem
• Fish Kill
• Sewage Spill
• Non-sewage Spill
• Stream Buffer Destruction
• Riparian Buffers
• Chattahoochee Restoration Program
• Local Government Contacts
• Muddy Water from Construction Sites
• Local Government Contacts
• Angler’s Pocket Guide
• Land Use/Zoning Issues
• Riparian Buffers
• Local Government Contacts

• River Patrol

Community

• Annual Race

• Floating Classroom
• Program History
• Hands-on Activities
• Curriculum and Accreditation
• Contact Information
• Waters to the Sea
• River Stewardship Trunks
• Watershed Patch Project

• River Adventures

• River Cleanup
• Upcoming Cleanups

• School Programs
• Waters to the Sea
• Floating Classroom on Lake Lanier
• River Stewardship Trunks
• Watershed Patch Project

• Watershed Groups
• Define and Map Your Watershed

Issues

• Greenspace

• Industrial Discharges

• Public Health
• Permit Review and Comment
• City of Atlanta lawsuit
• Fisherman’s Right-to-Know Regulations
• BacteriALERT Program
• Fish Consumption Guidelines

• Sewers

• Stream Buffers

• Water Withdrawals
• Instream Flows to Protect Aquatic Habitat
• Protecting Instream Water Quality Below Peachtree Creek
• Water Withdrawal Permits and the Courts
• Water Quantity and the Tristate Water Negotiations

Policy

• Georgia Water Coalition

• Legislative Program

• Metro Water District

• National Issues
• Climate Change
• Mercury Contamination
• Federal Hydropower Licensing Rules
• The Roadless Area Conservation Rule
• Stormwater Runoff

• State Wide Water Plan
• State Water Council Final Water Plan
• Legislative Programs

• Tristate
• Water Dispute History
• In the Courts
• Litigation
• Tristate Conservation Coalition

• Water Quality

• Water Quantity
• Enough Water to Ensure Healthy Rivers
• Water Withdrawal Permits and the Courts
• Tristate Water Allocations

Litigation

• Laws We Use
• Federal Laws
• Point Source
• State Laws
• Local Ordinances

• Legal Cases
• Wastewater
• City of Atlanta Sewers
• Fieldale Farms Clean Up Toxic Discharges
• Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Degradation provision in Gwinnett County
• Intent to Sue Letters Bring Results
• Private Sewage Plant on Lake Lanier Brought into Compliance
• Water Quantity
• Tristate Water Allocation
• Stormwater
• Appeal of the State Industrial Stormwater Permit
• Betsy Nicholas’ Paper on Industrial Stormwater
• Settlement of Clean Water Act Lawsuit Against Corrections Department
• AJC article
• Settlement of General Construction Stormwater Lawsuit
• Illegal Discharges in Stormwater Leachate at Morgan Falls Landfill
• Settlement Reached in Powder Springs
• Industrial Stormwater Controlled at Asphalt Plant
• Stream Buffers
• Report a Problem
• Other Enforcement Results

• Other Keepers

Library

• Links
• Regional Environmental Groups
• National Environmental Groups
• Recreational Contacts
• Government Agencies and Other Resources

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• Annual Report
• 2007