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Our online tools make adding your voice as simple as clicking a button. Check out our current action alerts below and help us take action to protect our coast!
Current Action Alerts
Stop the Privatization of our Coastal Drinking Water Supply
Water taken from the Floridan Aquifer is a limited resource—especially in Effingham, Bryan, and Chatham Counties. HB 1146, which addresses water withdrawals specifically for “consumptive use” (water that will never go back into the aquifer), would allow private individuals to bypass local governments and water utilities and get a permit to sell water to developers.
Access to Georgia’s limited drinking water supply will be available to the highest bidder unless we stop HB 1146. Contact your Senator: Tell them to vote NO on HB 1146!
CRD Proposes New Rules for Private Recreational Docks
GA Dept. of Natural Resources’ Coastal Resources Division (CRD) has proposed new regulations around private recreational docks.
OHM supports the adoption of rules that will govern how private docks are constructed over marshlands. We are asking for a rule that upholds the state protections for Georgia’s marshlands, affirms protections for state-protected species and endangered species like the East Indian manatee, and recognizes historic sites and culturally significant waterways.
Written public comment will be received through Friday, March 15, 2024. Email your comments to [email protected].
Following the comment period, the Board of Natural Resources will consider the proposed rule on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 9:00 AM at the Jekyll Island Convention Center (75 Beachview Drive N., Jekyll Island 31527).
Glynn County Residents: Participate in Zoning Ordinance Update to shape your county’s future
What’s important to you in your neighborhood and county? Walkability and bike lanes? Tree canopy and public park space? Ensuring new commercial and industrial development goes in the right places? Protections for our threatened and endangered wildlife? These are all zoning issues—and they need your voice!
After years of delays, Glynn County recently released its draft zoning ordinance update—and now it’s up to you to help determine what happens next.
Protect the Okefenokee from risky mining: tell epd to deny twin pines’ permits
In February 2024, EPD released draft permits (Air Quality, Use of Groundwater, and Surface Mining), taking another risky step towards mining in this unique and sensitive area.
The EPD is now accepting comments on these draft permits. We’ve organized our comments into letter templates that you can personalize—or write a letter that is completely your own and send it using our system. Comment before April 9!
Liberty County:
Participate in Comprehensive Plan Community Meetings
The Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission wants to hear from residents and get feedback for the 2050 Liberty County Joint Comprehensive Plan Update via monthly community meetings held throughout the year in each Liberty County subarea. We encourage residents to attend and voice their vision for the future.
March meeting: Monday, March 25 at 6 PM at Fleming Baptist Church. This and upcoming meeting details can be found here and on Facebook.
KEEP SAPELO GEECHEE
Sapelo’s historic Saltwater/Gullah Geechee community of Hog Hammock, also known as Hog(g) Hummock, is inhabited by descendants of formerly enslaved West Africans and is the last Saltwater/Gullah Geechee community on a Georgia barrier island.
On September 13, 2023, after zero conversations with Saltwater/Gullah Geechee residents or public meetings in Hog Hammock, and thousands of emails and public comments in opposition, the McIntosh County Commissioners voted to change the zoning in Hog Hammock. These changes will speed up the gentrification of Hog Hammock and cause the erasure of Saltwater/Gullah Geechee people from Sapelo Island.
If you are a registered voter in McIntosh County, you can help Keep Sapelo Geechee!
Savannah Port: Comment on the Expansion
The Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the State of Georgia “to increase the Port of Savannah capacity” by building a new containerized cargo terminal on Hutchinson Island along the Savannah River.
While the comment period has closed, any comments received until a decision is made must be considered. Reviewing GPA’s proposal is a massive undertaking. Learn more about our concerns, and comment with your own, using the form in the link below.
Tell USACE: we need more time to comment, more information to understand, and an opportunity to speak.
Stop the Warehouse Takeover!
Our coast is rapidly changing thanks to unchecked and haphazard warehouse development. Neighborhoods are being boxed in by industrial sites, creating challenges with infrastructure, local culture, historical places, and environmental and public safety.
Sound the alarm! Join communities from Chatham to Camden by asking for moratoriums on industrialization and sensible, sustainable planning. And get a #StopTheWarehouseTakeover sign for your yard!