With momentum for long-term investment building, Africatown environmental advocates identified a lack of data about the safety of Hog Bayou and sought assistance from the Mobile Baykeeper, the Environmental Integrity Project, the Sierra Club, and the Center for Applied Environmental Science to help us identify potential risks and challenges that may come along with the sort of increased public access to Hog Bayou that advocates and residents have sought for years.
Together, we are asking community folks to take a survey about fish consumption concerns related to Hog Bayou. Everyone can take the survey! It only take a few minutes.
Take the Hog Bayou Community: Health Risk Survey (Fish Consumption) here.
Read on to learn more about Hog Bayou’s potential to serve Africatown’s future!!
And check out the Mobile Baykeeper story “Reclaiming Africatown’s Hog Bayou” in their Currents magazine about the cultural significance of the water.