TUSCALOOSA COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - The wreckage of a small private plane that crashed Feb. 16 in the Black Warrior River was removed from the water Tuesday. The pilot, Edward Todd, 67, was killed.

Nelson says the spill could travel through Ensley and into Bayview Lake. Village Creek flows downstream from the lake to the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River.

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The groups said the Mays No. 5 Mine, a controversial surface coal mine, appears to be operating outside the bounds of its authorizing permit, resulting in pollution of the Black Warrior River’s ...

The flattened musk turtle is a small turtle found only in the upper Black Warrior River watershed, including the Mulberry Fork. Sedimentation from surface coal mining and the legacy effects of surface ...