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Black Warrior Riverkeeper ^® was founded in 2001 to help protect and restore the Black Warrior River and its tributaries in Alabama, America’s leading state for freshwater biodiversity. A citizen-based nonprofit organization, Black Warrior Riverkeeper is dedicated to improving water quality, habitat, recreation, and public health throughout the Black Warrior River watershed. The nonprofit patrols waterways, educates the public, and holds polluters accountable.

Black Warrior Riverkeeper recently achieved a $150,000 settlement in a lawsuit over sedimentation from storm water runoff, one of the leading causes of impairment in Alabama’s streams and rivers. The defendants, Birmingham Airport Authority and Dunn Construction Company, were ordered to take steps to curtail construction storm water runoff polluting Village Creek, a tributary of the Black Warrior River’s Locust Fork. Part of the settlement will fund a conservation project in the Village Creek watershed.