Riverkeeper Report

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Compiled by Meaghan Gerard Communications & Administrative Director Ogeechee Riverkeeper meaghan@ogeecheeriverkeeper.org

The Satilla Riverkeeper is happy to announce an in-person Gala this year at Strickland's lodge on August 20. The Gala includes dinner for 130 people, with music, keynote address, open bar, live auction and silent auction. Tickets are $125. All funds collected go to support the Satilla Riverkeeper in its mission to protect the Satilla River. satillariverkeeper.org www.

Savannah Riverkeeper is advocating for a better, cleaner, healthier Savannah River basin. The air in our headquarters, in Augusta, Ga., is ranked 28th most polluted in the country. Aurubis, a German-based copper smelter, has asked Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division to release more than 30 dangerous chemicals into Augusta’s already dirty air. That list includes arsenic and o-xylene. The Savannah Riverkeeper Research and Advocacy Unit is working hard to stand up against Aurubis’ request. More: savannahriverkeeper.org/ aurubisa

Milliken & Company announced the closure of the Longleaf plant located on the Ogeechee River in Screven County, Georgia. Milliken purchased the former King America Finishing plant in 2014, along with its existing permit to discharge treated industrial effluent into the Ogeechee River, one of the last remaining freeflowing blackwater rivers in the nation. Ogeechee Riverkeeper (ORK) considers the closure of the Longleaf facility to be an overall positive step for the health and cleanliness of the watershed, while acknowledging the impacts to the local economy that such a closure will necessitate. www.ogeecheeriverkeeper. org/press-release-milliken-closure/