RESTORE Act money available to the Gulf Coast after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and oil spill funded the addition of eight miles of sewer lines.
A royal tern comes in for a landing on some pilings in Wolf Bay as a laughing gull looks on in this Mobile Press-Register file photo. Wolf Bay is recognized as one of the state's "Outstanding Alabama Water" by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. .Sewer projects often do not generate headlines, and are rarely ribbon cutting spectacles for politicians and business leaders.
“Sewer lines may be out of sign, out of mind but it’s a critical system that needs to be maintained properly,” Mayor Tony Kennon said in a news release the city sent out Friday touting the addition of eight miles of sewer line from Alabama State Highway 180 in Orange Beach to an existing sewer lift station on Baldwin County Road 12.
“Water quality improvements and upgraded sewer infrastructure are priority projects for Coastal Alabama,” said Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Commissioner Chris Blankenship. Wolf Bay has been recognized by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the U.S. EPA as anKennon noted, and he said the project will help “protect that designation.”
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