Baldwin County Commission joins Mobile Bay NEP and Dauphin Island Sea Lab to monitor streams and rivers
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — The Baldwin County Commission has partnered with the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and Dauphin Island Sea Lab to improve monitoring of local streams and rivers, and to develop a tool to review stormwater management.
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The commission entered an agreement with the two entities that will run from May 20, 2025, to April 30, 2026, a news release said.
'The agreement … marks a continued investment in Baldwin County's long-term water resource management strategy,' the release said.
MBNEP, in partnership with the county, installed several stream and rain gauges across local watersheds last year, as part of the county's hydrologic modeling initiative — a specific approach to water management that helps officials understand and predict the behavior of water systems.
With this new agreement, four additional gauges will be installed, three at critical locations along Styx River and one in the Magnolia River.
The information from these gauges is instrumental in managing stormwater and runoff, as well as protecting the watersheds, the release said.
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The project is funded through a financial partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Estuary Program, according to the release.
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