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A $16.2 Million Effort to Save Daphne's Creeks — and a Busy June for Fire, Police and Home Building

City councilmembers heard Monday how the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program has rebuilt nearly 2.8 miles of eroding streambank in the D'Olive Watershed since 2012, cutting an estimated 28,662 tons of sediment per year out of the bay — work that in 2020 got Joe's Branch off Alabama's impaired-waters list and in 2013 won a presidential coastal-restoration award. The same evening, two city committees reviewed a busy June for the fire department — 444 calls — and $8.6 million in new building permits.