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By Guy Busby
FAIRHOPE – Eastern Shore residents and officials are launching plans to clean the waters of Mobile Bay.
State Rep. Joe Faust, R-Fairhope, said the group, “Clean Water Alabama,” will work to find ways to improve the waters that drain into Mobile Bay. He said residents of the Eastern Shore and other areas of Baldwin County should receive letters in February asking them to take part in the effort.
Faust said the plan began on a smaller scale, with concerns over Weeks Bay, but organizers soon realized the need for solutions was statewide.
“We started off with this thing talking about Weeks Bay,” Faust said. “You hear so many people talking about how it’s filling up with silt and so we formed this group to talk about getting Weeks Bay cleaned out. As time when on and we talked with each other, we decided we wanted to do something widespread all over Alabama because when you talk about clean water in Mobile Bay or rivers, we all think that your not going to b