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Banks High School building set to be demolished in July The old Banks High School in East Lake is set to be demolished in July. (Source: WBRC) By WBRC Staff | March 10, 2021 at 11:11 AM CST - Updated March 10 at 11:13 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham City Council has approved a bid for the removal of hazardous material and demolition of the former Banks High School building in the East Lake community.
The bid, in the amount of $397,700, from South East Demolition and Environmental Services in Montgomery was approved Tuesday.
Over the last few years, we have sent out multiple Requests for Proposals (RFPs) with the intention of attracting private developers to renovate and repurpose the blighted building,” Councilor Hunter Williams said. “My office also partnered with Auburn Urban Design Studios to work on design plans to save the building and entice potential developers. These efforts have not yielded any offers from developers and the City will be keeping i
What is the foul-smelling sludge being sprayed north of Birmingham?
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
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But it smells like death.
The odor of degrading food processing waste wafts through the car’s air conditioning vents driving along Mt. Olive Road and slaps you in the face when you open your car door near the old Knob No. 1 mine site, a surface coal mine that closed in 2010.
The reclaimed mine about 20 miles north of Birmingham is being sprayed this week with waste from an undisclosed food processing facility by an Arkansas-based company called Denali Water Solutions. There aren’t many neighbors near the rural site, surrounded by a handful of inactive coal mines, but the ones there are raising their own stink about the odors emanating from the site.
Alabama Power experts helping survey for rare species
By Michael Sznajderman
March 5, 2021
Alabama Power is working with a number of partners to protect and grow populations of species such as the trispot darter, the gopher tortoise and the Black Warrior waterdog. (contributed)
As winter wanes and spring approaches, Alabama Power biologists are helping environmental partners with field work aimed at protecting rare species around the state.
Recent work has varied – from an ongoing search in east Alabama for an elusive, tiny fish, to gathering genetic material related to a rare salamander in the Black Warrior River Basin, to seeking out the underground homes of a protected tortoise in southeast Alabama.
Scroll down to see the letter from Gadsden Water Works to ADEM.
Gadsden Water Works and Sewer Board has suspended its letter saying it could accept wastewater from the proposed Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant.
The decision was announced in another letter sent Feb. 26 to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. That letter, provided by General Manager Chad Hare, said that since the board s original letter to ADEM in October, Pilgrim s has not received approval to locate or operate at the referenced address. Currently, Gadsden Water does not have sewer collection infrastructure in place to serve that address and given the absence of approval of the location and the ever-increasing uncertainty regarding the operation of the facility, and the undefined timeframe for such approvals, it cannot be reasonably expected to commit public funds to expand its infrastructure to that location at this time, the letter continued.