Tuesday, September 30, 2008

City of the Day - Birmingham, AL

Birmingham is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County. It also includes part of Shelby County. The population of the city is 242,820 as of the 2000 census, and 229,424 according to the 2006 estimate. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, as of the 2007 census estimates, has a population of 1,108,210. It is also the largest city in the Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman Combined Statistical Area, colloquially known as Greater Birmingham, which contains roughly one quarter of the population of Alabama.

You can look at the water companies here.

You can look at the churches here.

Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of Birmingham Water Board drank water containing up to 11 pollutants. Birmingham Water Board is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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