| Below EPA Threshold | Over EPA Threshold | % of passing | # of failing | # of times sampled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 29 |
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 endpoint 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. The Live Oak sampling site is located north of the intersection of County Road 1 and Scenic 98 at the “Live Oaks Water and Beach” public access.
