City of the Day - Huntsville, AL

Huntsville is a city in Madison and Limestone Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the county seat of Madison County. Started with a single cabin in 1805, the city was incorporated six years later as Twickenham. However, it was renamed "Huntsville" (after first settler John Hunt) during the War of 1812, and it has grown across nearby hills and along the Tennessee River, adding textile mills, then munitions factories, to become a major city, hosting the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal. Huntsville is the largest core city of the four-county Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of Huntsville was 158,216. As of 2007, the estimated population of the Huntsville Metropolitan Area is 386,632, with the city proper having 171,327 residents.

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Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of Huntsville Utilities drank water containing up to 9 pollutants. Huntsville Utilities is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.