I spent last Friday fighting my way through the evil tangled invasive-mess we call privet along the steep bank of a creek between two industrial factory complexes.  My guide, Nelson Brooke of the Black Warrior Riverkeepers, was kind enough to lead me to the discharge pipes along Avondale Creek where McWane Cast Iron Pipe Company is dumping pollutants.  The creek feeds into Village Creek, which is a tributary of Black Warrior River’s Locust Fork.  By finding a loophole in the Clean Water Act, McWane managed to set the EPA back by years, and legally destroy the environment while they’re at it.  Read more about the issue in the New York Times article here, or on the Black Warrior Riverkeepers site here.

I spent last Friday fighting my way through the evil tangled invasive-mess we call privet along the steep bank of a creek between two industrial factory complexes.  My guide, Nelson Brooke of the Black Warrior Riverkeepers, was kind enough to lead me to the discharge pipes along Avondale Creek where McWane Cast Iron Pipe ...