River Revival Tickets on Sale Now!

The River Revival Watershed Sessions, An Atlanta Rocker’s Jam, will be held Thursday, May 14, from 6:30 - 10:00 pm at Park Tavern in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. Click here for details and to buy tickets now.

This annual celebration raises funds and awareness for UCR’s work protecting the Chattahoochee River. The ticket price ($40 by May 11, $55 at the door) includes live music, great food, complimentary beer brewed by Park Tavern and SweetWater Brewery, silent auction, and a one-year complimentary UCR membership.

This year’s performers include Gareth Asher, Kenny Creswell, Christopher Allen Yates, Jen Lowe, Brian Binsky, and more. This is also the first in a series of Save the Hooch events sponsored by SweetWater Brewery. Main sponsors include Rock 100.5, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and Cox Conserves. For a complete list of sponsors, click here.

2009 Legislature Ends with Water Wins and Losses

Thanks to each of you who contacted your legislators during the session to urge them to vote for bills to protect our waterways and against those that would harm them! As in most years, we won some and lost some.

Victories include (1) the defeat HB 406, which would have made it easier to dam rivers and streams for subdivision lakes masquerading as water supply sources, and (2) passage of a bill to keep chemically-treated water from being injected into underground aquifers. Click here for more information.

Registration Open for 2009 Paddle Events

Registration is open for the Back to the Chattahoochee River Race and Festival to be held June 13, and also for various paddle trips including those in our River Discovery Series. Click here for a complete list of our paddle trips and to register.

SweetWater 420 Fest, April 18-19

Earth Day Weekend is just around the corner! UCR will once again be on site at SweetWater’s 420 Festival in Candler Park, so please come visit us at the Planet 420 area of the festival grounds. Click here for more information.

The Flint River: Second Most Endangered River in the Nation

A report released yesterday by American Rivers lists Georgia’s Flint River as the second most endangered in the nation due to recent proposals to dam the Flint in two places and expand current reservoirs on its tributaries. As stated by Rebecca Wooder, president of American Rivers, “Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to dam the Flint River simply doesn’t make sense when there are water efficiency options available that are far cheaper and would deliver faster results.”

Click here to read the American Rivers report and find out what you can do to save the Flint!