After two years of litigation, the city of Tuscaloosa has settled a lawsuit over the city’s chronic sewage spills into local waterways.

The lawsuit was brought against the city in 2023 by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, who accused the city of violating the Alabama Water Pollution Control Act by spilling more than 41 million gallons of raw sewage into local waterways over a five-year period. Soon after the suit was filed, two environmental nonprofits–Black Warrior Riverkeeper and Friends of Hurricane Creek–joined the litigation as intervenors with representation from the Southern Environmental Law Center, SELC, having already threatened their own federal lawsuit against the city.

After the state lawsuit was filed, Tuscaloosa

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