Volunteers remove trash, mattresses from Apalachicola River on Earth Day
The Apalachicola River â home to boats, birds, and fish. More importantly, fresh water. That freshwater is what keeps this area afloat.
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The Apalachicola River â home to boats, birds, and fish. More importantly, fresh water. That freshwater is what keeps this area afloat.
âItâs the only river we have in Florida that gets its source from the Appalachian Mountains,â says Doug Alderson, who is the Apalachicola Riverkeeper Outreach and Advocacy Director.
Alderson has been with the Apalachicola Riverkeeper for about a year. Keeping the river clean is his passion.
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The Jim Woodruff Dam is in Chattahoochee Florida. It’s here, where the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers join to form the Apalachicola, home to a Bay that used to be famed for its seafood harvests, most notably its oysters.
When rain is plentiful in south Georgia, water flows freely into Florida. But when there’s drought, as there was for ten consecutive months in 2012, water stays behind the dam. And this is a source of conflict between the states.
“We’re not asking for a great amount of water more. We’re just asking for an equal share of water.” This is oysterman Shannon Hartsfield in 2012, during the drought. The Apalachicola Bay oyster fishery had just crashed. It still hasn’t recovered. In a more recent interview, Hartsfield said he hasn’t harvested oysters in nearly a decade.