Photo: John L. Wathen, Hurricane Creekkeepe It’s sunny and in the mid-70s in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama right now. Normally, that would be prime conditions for a swim in Davis Creek or Texas Creek. But right now, both are running black, full of thick wastewater runoff. Advertisement The Alabama Department of Environmental Management has been receiving complaints about the pollution in the water bodies and is currently investigating the cause of it. The Alabama Surface Mining Commission has sent environmental regulators to check it out, too. But Nelson Brooke—the riverkeeper for the Black Warrior River, which both creeks flow into—has done his own investigation, and is sure he knows where the pollution is coming from.