More than 4,600 tons of limestone are on their way from Northwest Alabama to help rebuild oyster reefs and improve water quality along Alabama’s Gulf Coast.
The Alabama Wildlife Federation (AWF), in partnership with Vulcan Materials Company and Cooper Marine, announced that limestone from Vulcan’s Pride Quarry in Tuscumbia has been loaded onto barges and is making its way down the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers to Mobile Bay.
Once it arrives, the limestone will be deployed near Cedar Point as oyster cultch, the hard material young oysters attach to as they grow into reefs…