Living Shoreline: Old Town Fernandina Oyster Reef
July update — SPAT Abounds Two months after deploying the second groups of traps, we have evidence of success! Baby oysters- knowns as “spat” have taken hold all over the […]
Adopt-A-Stream Awards 2021
St. Marys Riverkeeper Lapped Up Awards at Georgia’s Adopt-A-Stream 2021 “Confluence” St. Marys Riverkeeper took home multiple awards at this year’s “Confluence 2021” in March, the annual conference of Georgia’s […]
St. Marys Riverkeeper Success Story
Camden’s Horsepen Creek is now clear as a bell Every month, Anna Laws pulls on her waterproof boots and steps out of her SUV parked on the side of a […]
Escambia Slough
Our water monitoring revealed higher-than-normal levels of E.coli counts at Escambia Slough, which is part of the drainage system for downtown Fernandina Beach, FL, beginning in 2018. In January, 2021, […]
Spanish Creek
Phase 1 of an incentive grant to clean up the bacterially-impaired Spanish Creek watershed in Charlton County, GA., began in 2019. Efforts are still underway to identify the source of […]
Horsepen Creek
Horsepen Creek flows into the St. Marys River at the Browntown community near Kingsland. It is hailed as a success story for the SMRK and other entities that worked successfully […]