Nearly ONE MILLION POUNDS OF TOXIC CHEMICAL are dumped into the Coosa River each year

Did you know that nearly ONE MILLION POUNDS OF TOXIC CHEMICAL are dumped into the Coosa River each year? And nearly 95% of that waste comes from Koch Foods chicken processing plants near Gadsden in the form of nitrate compounds. When looking at the most harmful chemicals though, the Gaston Steam Plant in Wilsonville and the Resolute Forest Products Coosa Pines paper mill in Childersburg outpace others. In fact, Alabama Power’s Gaston Steam Plant released three times as much developmental toxins to the river, at 473 pounds, as all the other facilities in the basin combined. Learn more in our recent blog post at CoosaRiver.org!