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Keep the Flint River Clean is a community-led alliance dedicated to protecting the health, beauty, and sustainability of the Flint River and its surrounding environment.
Our mission is to provide a central source of information, foster open dialogue, and encourage responsible development that preserves the natural resources, property values, and quality of life for all who call this area home.
We believe that by working together as informed and engaged residents, we can ensure that the Flint River remains a clean, sage, and vibrant resource for generations to come.
Kait Thursday - Huntsville Business Journal
“Strong, ongoing monitoring and enforcement by ADEM will be crucial to ensure the Integra Water facility does not contribute further pollution.”
In the News
Kalee Kniess - WAFF 48 | September 24, 2025
“I was a little bit to be honest with you shocked.” — mac McCutcheon
Kalee Kniess - WAFF 48 | July 21, 2025
“when looking at the second page of the application, It says ADEM asks them to ‘voluntarily consider pollution prevention practices’.”
Maddie McCaffrey - WAAY 31 | July 23, 2025
“They’re worried about the impact this could have on the flint river, a place that means so much to their community.”
Kalee Kniess - WAFF 48 | July 18, 2025
“Residents said they didn’t even know about the proposal until after the public comment period had already closed.”
what people are saying
“Keep our Flint River Clean!! I say NO to the water treatment plant!!!”
— d.s.
“As a local realtor with friends/family who live on the flint, not only do I want to see our beautiful waterways protected, but also to see my loved ones maintain property values and clean ground water. Please consider another location and keep the flint out of harms way.”
— c.l.
“The river is classified as a fish and wildlife use river. That classification is not consistent with the actual use of the river. It is used in whole body recreation by thousands of people every year.”
—m.p.
“Our family home is right on the river and we spend all summer swimming and kayaking on it. I am very concerned about the health of my children and our ability to be in the water with polluted water from this!”
— s.m.
“Keep our beautiful community CLEAN and SAFE!”
— l.d.
“Let's keep the Flint River clean and unpolluted!”
— j.g.
“I want my children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the Flint River the way I was able to as a kid, running clean.”
— s.p.
“This is disgusting to think this could happen to our flint river. I used to live on a river in New Jersey with a treatment plant on it and it absolutely destroyed the river. Please don’t do this!!”
— j.h.
“We kayak in the Flint river often. We don’t want to see it compromised by waste water or chemicals.”
— m.j.
“Why would a waste water plant be located near residential neighborhoods?”
— d.w.
“My primary concern centers on the potential runoff into the river, which serves not only our community but many surrounding areas as well. This river ultimately drains into the Tennessee River, a vital source of drinking water.
The planned facility does not offer any clear benefits to our neighborhood, as we rely on individual septic systems. Instead, it poses a significant risk of environmental contamination, flooding properties and threatens to diminish our property values. We ask that you please reconsider the approval of this permit, keeping in mind the environmental and community impact it may cause.”
— l.s.
“Water is not an unlimited resource, we need to keep the Flint River clean.”
— C.W.
“This river needs protected for all the kayaking, children playing near the river, fishing, and surrounding communities. Waste in our river and backyards is a horrible problem for future illnesses and so forth. This river is residential, commercial and a wildlife habitat. Why is there any question that it is okay to toss sewage waste into this river?!?!”
— d.d.
“We enjoy the Flint as so do our children and grandchildren. I want it to stay clean!”
— v.f.
“My home is along the river. I do not support the waste water treatment plant anywhere near the river!”
— m.m.
“I do not want this on the Flint River. It will impact home prices and our use of the River! It will also impact the wildlife.”
— g.b.
“This sounds like a detriment to our community and the wildlife population. I am against it and am hoping they move their waste water somewhere else.”
— j.l.
“The Flint River is worth protecting.”
— l.g.
“I’ve been canoeing the Flint River for 27 years and I want to continue.”
— j.s.
“My family and I use the Flint River for kayaking and swimming often and I would like for it to stay clean.”
— a.o.
“We don't want our water affected by this.”
— j.b.
“I often go to the Flint River to play with my children and the location of this facility will likely severely impact that.”
— m.b.
“We regularly float our kayaks down the river and would hate to give that up for such a disruption.”
— w.o.
“I grew up by the Flint my entire life and have used it nearly every summer. To put a wastewater treatment plant here would absolutely devastate the ecosystem and the river's usability.”
— l.s.
“This facility would be detrimental to the community, neighborhoods, families/ children that play in the river daily, property values, and wildlife in the local river. As a physician I can expound on the many complications of water treatment facilities on health and wellbeing of people in the surrounding areas no matter how much the big company tries to downplay the health effects. I see it clinically daily. Endocrine disrupting chemicals that flow through these facilities in waste water is not cleared with traditional measures of water treatment and then are released into the river causing effects on the downstream wildlife and humans that play in the river. I have treated plenty of people with such effects.”
— j.t.
“The waste water plant will pollute the river that touches my property. It is too close to neighborhoods that will not benefit from it at all. The houses around it have septic. It will only cause property devaluation and pollution to those near it with no benefits.”
— l.a.
“Polluting the flint river is wrong for a multitude of reasons. Not only is it a community staple, it is one of the only natural waterways in the area and serves as an ecosystem for all native animals, plants, bugs, etc in north Alabama. Choosing to pollute this waterway would be detrimental to north Alabama.
— k.n.
“Please consider moving this plant, or at least put it on a ballot for the local election so homeowners can vote on it. I personally do not want a company dumping “treated water” into our local river.”
— g.a.
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