| Below EPA Threshold | Over EPA Threshold | % of passing | # of failing | # of times sampled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 5 | 81.50 | 18.50 | 27 |
The Mobile Bay Watershed encompasses 65% of the land area for the state of Alabama, along with portions of Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. On average, 33.5 trillion gallons pass into Mobile Bay annually, making it the fourth largest drainage basin in North America. Mobile Bay is the end-point for the Mobile, Tombigbee, Black Warrior, Alabama, Coosa, and Tallapoosa Rivers. The watershed is a vast network of more than 250 separate waterways. The waterways that flow toward Mobile Bay form the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, a 40-mile-long braid of rivers and bayous that spreads over cypress swamps, bottomland forests, marshes, and bogs. The expansive Delta is considered one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America – “North America’s Amazon.” It opens into the northern end of Mobile Bay in an area called Five Rivers, which consists of the Mobile, Spanish, Tensaw, Apalachee, and Blakeley rivers.
“It’ll Do” is a name given to the home and property of volunteer bacteriological monitor Stephanie Middleton. The site is located in Montrose, a small area between Fairhope and Daphne. Many of the homes in the area were built in the mid- to late-1800s as summer vacation homes for residents of Mobile. Montrose was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1976.
