2024 Partnerships Multiply Our Efforts to Protect and Restore the River - Cahaba River Society


Partnerships are essential to protecting and restoring the river. This year, we worked with amazing organizations on projects that make a real and immediate difference on behalf of the river.Β 

  • Partnered with UAB Health Policy Ambassadors to draft green infrastructure policy recommendations for municipalities in the Cahaba River watershed.Β 
  • Partnered with The Urban Turtle Project and The Birmingham Zoo to survey alligator snapping turtles populations and range in the Cahaba River.
  • Partnered with Living River Retreat to expand CLEAN Environmental Education’s accessibility to students in the lower watershed.Β 
  • Partnered with local artists and nonprofits to develop creative options to recycle more of of the materials our volunteers remove from the river.
  • Hosted the Birmingham Water Works Board Summer Ambassadors
  • Continued partnership with The Nature Conservancy of Alabama in The Urban River Restoration Collaborative.
  • Cahaba Riverkeeper
  • Adventure Scientists
  • Mom’s Basement
  • The City of Hoover