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to clean water. everyone’s right protecting leaders of grassroots global network and growsa strengthens Alliance Waterkeeper About Us

Waterkeeper Alliance holds polluters accountable. We’re the largest and fastest growing nonprofit solely focused on clean water. We preserve and protect water by connecting local Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates worldwide. Our goal is drinkable, fishable and swimmable water everywhere.

On the Our story started on the 50 years ago, in 1966, cover: when commercial and recreational fishermen, many of them Mbenda and Soda Seck, military veterans, united to save their river and formed the Hudson daughters of River Fishermen’s Association. These fishermen recognized that Hann Baykeeper outspoken, citizen-led advocacy was the only way to ensure that Mbacke Seck, at laws were enforced and their river, livelihoods and the health of the Bargny Coast their families were protected. They took on many of the nation’s Waterkeeper biggest industrial polluters and won. Climate March in .

In 1983, they hired the first full-time Hudson Riverkeeper to patrol the river, to restore its abundant fisheries and to lead citizen-based enforcement of environmental laws. Since those early days, Hudson Riverkeeper has brought hundreds of polluters to justice and forced them to spend hundreds of millions of dollars restoring the Hudson to health. Their success spurred an explosive growth of similar grassroots organizations across the globe, and in 1999 Waterkeeper Alliance was founded to support these organizations.

Today, Waterkeeper Alliance is made up of over 290 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates protecting rivers, lakes and coastal waterways on 6 continents. Our proudest accomplishment is the depth and breadth of our member organizations and the unity of their vision for clean water and strong communities. WK AR 16 4 waterkeeper alliance annual report 2016 letter one

Letter From the President

This year, the Waterkeeper movement celebrated CEO, wherever there was a rapacious pillager from its 50th anniversary. In 1966 a group of fishermen, Monsanto, Smithfield, Duke, Exxon, or Koch Industries, aggrieved by the that was destroying their Terry wanted Waterkeepers to deploy with their boats, livelihoods, founded the Hudson River Fishermen’s and their lawyers, spoiling for a fight. Association in a rickety old VFW Hall in Crotonville, No one preached the promise of the Waterkeeper . Using a wooden lobster boat and an movement more passionately than Terry. He was ancient navigational statute, they began patrolling the longest-serving Waterkeeper when he died a the river and suing polluters. Their actions helped year ago in December. reclaim the river from the robber barons who We missed Terry when we celebrated the 50th had contaminated and killed large stretches of anniversary of the Waterkeeper movement. He wasn’t the Hudson. Inspired by the Hudson’s miraculous there to celebrate with us but he did live to see the recovery, hundreds of men and women around the movement spread to over 30 countries. He saw globe have since pledged their lives to protecting a Waterkeepers playing an increasingly critical role in particular river, lake or bay by joining the Waterkeeper saving the world’s waters and fighting for democracy movement and entering the battle for justice and and justice. environmental democracy. Today, at the movement’s half-century mark, As I reflect on our half century of Waterkeeper Waterkeepers are on the water every day patrolling accomplishments, I think of an autumn afternoon and protecting nearly 2.5 million square miles of The Empire 30 years ago, when I stood on a wharf in Norwalk, watersheds across the world, in Australia, , State Building Connecticut, with a burly commercial fisherman Canada, , , , , Iraq, Kenya, illuminated in named Terry Backer, watching raw bubble , Russia, Sweden, Togo, the , blue and green in from a submerged pipe. Terry told me that the City of and elsewhere. honor of Hudson Norwalk’s illegal discharges were killing all the oyster Terry knew that water would be the commodity Riverkeeper’s spat in western Long Island Sound. with the most profound impact on humanity’s future. 50th anniversary. Within a few months, we filed lawsuits against He saw the future as a series of wars between the Photo by Markus Norwalk, Bridgeport, Stamford, Branford, Greenwich, common people, who own the waterways, and the Jarrow. New Haven and West Haven for inadequate sewage moguls and their captive politicians who would try treatment. Our first settlement, with Norwalk, yielded to privatize the commons. He would be proud that a $180,000 payment in lieu of penalties. We used that Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates will continue money to set up Long Island Soundkeeper, the second to be the most effective and aggressive advocates for Waterkeeper organization. Terry became its leader. public ownership and clean water. Terry and I shared a vision of a global force of The Waterkeeper movement’s first 50 years have autonomous Waterkeeper Organizations running patrol taught us that the decline and destruction of the earth boats on every waterway in the world, united through are not destiny. Human effort, with God’s help, shared ideals and loosely centralized governance. can reverse the ravages of pollution. Pope Francis Waterkeepers would be involved in every fight for preaches that the world is our “common home”. clean water. If there was a fish kill in North Carolina, The hardy men and women of Waterkeeper a combustible oil-train spill in Montreal, liquefied- know that earth’s salvation will require courage, natural-gas tycoons bullying officials for a permit on commitment, vision and a willingness to cross Puget Sound, industrial shrimp farms devastating the swords with the apocalyptical forces of ignorance Philippines’ mangrove bays, a dam proposed in Belize or on and greed. Patagonia’s Futaleufu, or Atlantic salmon cages colonizing The polluters have the wealth and power, but we the coast of Chile, Terry wanted a Waterkeeper to be have persistence, conviction and righteousness on present with mitts up, ready for a scuffle. our side. We have fought power and adversity for 50 He wanted us to be a leading voice in every big years, and yet we find ourselves stronger than ever. battle, from the Pebble Mine in Alaska to Hann Bay Now, we prepare ourselves for the next 50! in Senegal, from Alberta’s tar sands to the mega- hotel developments on the Sea of Cortez. Sincerely, He wanted Waterkeepers at every illegal dye- house on Bangladesh’s , at every outlaw gold mine in Brazil. Wherever there was a polluter with a pipe, a bully with a backhoe, a Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. corrupt regulator, a crooked politician or a greedy President Letter From the Executive Director

Recently, I found myself sitting in a massive field in The Waterkeeper movement’s global reach and its Ladakh, India watching Waterkeeper Alliance’s president, strength must continue to increase because the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., speak passionately to a crowd of threats to global waters are increasing. Pollution from approximately 300,000 Buddhists. It was amazing to manufacturing, industrial agriculture, mining, fossil-fuel be in a sea of so many people cheering his message of energy production, and human waste is destroying life- clean water as a fundamental human right, one that was sustaining water everywhere. At the same time, water being denied to more than a billion people across the supplies are shrinking because of changes in the earth’s world. And I couldn’t help but marvel at how powerfully climate. This has heightened competition for precious the Waterkeeper model, developed 50 years ago on the water resources – with rationing and intense battles to Hudson River by a small band of aggrieved fisherman, control supplies already a reality in many parts of the letter TWO letter had spread globally and how lucky we are to have such world. Fresh-water shortages are at the root of many incredible partners in places as far away as Ladakh. current conflicts, and water is already at the center of the Twenty years ago, as one of Bobby’s law students, global environmental crisis. WK I knew that one day I wanted to work for the yet-to-be- The scope and scale of these problems are staggering. named Waterkeeper Alliance. I was sure it would become Every day, two million tons of sewage and industrial AR the world’s most powerful force for clean water. Back and agricultural waste are discharged into the world’s 16 then, however, I had no idea that this dynamic movement water, the equivalent of the weight of the entire human would include inspiring advocates across the Himalayas, population. Contaminated water is sickening and killing and in Bangladesh, Chile, Iraq, Kenya, Senegal, Togo, and millions of people. Over half the hospital beds in the beyond. The global reach of the Waterkeeper movement world are filled with people suffering from waterborne is a testament to the power of the grassroots model and diseases. And 3.2 million children under the age of five the belief that citizens have the right to organize to protect die each year as a result of unsafe drinking water and their local waterways to ensure clean water for drinking, poor sanitation. fishing, and swimming. These Waterkeepers often are the Given the magnitude and pervasiveness of these last line of defense for their communities. threats, time is critical. As we look back over the The Waterkeeper movement continues to grow Waterkeeper movement’s many successes over the past around the world, where women and men are standing year, we have reason to be proud. But at the same time up for their communities’ – and everyone’s – right to we are humbled by the challenges ahead. Next year and clean water. Our Miami Waterkeeper, for example, is beyond, we will focus on significantly increasing the tools leading the charge to protect South Florida’s coral reefs we can offer Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates. We and to make sure her city has the resilience to deal with also will invest in more resources to amplify the voices of

sea-level rise. In Senegal, Hann Baykeeper and Bargny the communities we represent, and we will continue to Coast Waterkeeper have stopped the construction of two grow the Waterkeeper movement, working to ensure the coal-fired power plants. Lake Ontario Waterkeeper has world’s most vulnerable watersheds have a Waterkeeper played a key role in the passage of the Great Lakes who is trained to be the best and brightest clean water

2016 Protection Act. And Waterkeepers from places such as advocate on the planet. Please join us. We can’t do it , California, and China, converged on Paris without your help. last December to press world leaders to take action to mitigate the effects of climate change. There are many Thank you for your support. more stories like this in the 34 countries that are home to Waterkeepers. To clean water,

Marc Yaggi Executive Director e annual report annual all i an c e waterkeeper

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Highlights FROM THE Movement

july 2015

Utah state officials require a tar sands mining company to do water and air quality monitoring thanks to pressure from Colorado Riverkeeper and partners. buffalo niagara riverkeeper Executive Director Marc Yaggi Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper and International Director Sharon and Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust, Khan travel to Sweden to meet with the help of $850,000 in local, with Swedish Baltic Rivers state and federal funding, demolish a Waterkeeper and the King of building on a brownfield site along the Sweden, and to participate in the Scajaquada Creek and plan to turn the National Water Conference, which area into a waterfront park. included Swedish water advocates and August 2015 local fishermen. OCTOBER 2015 U.S. District Court Judge Orinda rules in favor of Chattahoochee SEPTEMBER 2015 Maryland’s largest water utility Riverkeeper’s 2014 lawsuit against will pay $8.5 million for pollution American Sealcoat Manufacturing, In a major victory for threatened controls, $1 million for water quality fining them $10M for unlawful southern sea otters, U.S. District improvements, and $100,000 in discharge of toxic pollutants into Court Judge John F. Walter denies a civil penalties as a result of a lawsuit the Chattahoochee River.. challenge by fishing organizations to filed byP otomac Riverkeeper a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service decision and others over millions of pounds that has restored protections for sea of pollution being dumped into the otters in Southern California. Los Potomac River from the utility’s water Santa Barbara Angeles Waterkeeper and filtration plant in Potomac, Maryland. Channelkeeper scores a big partners intervened in the case on win in court in August 2015 when behalf of the Fish & Wildlife Service. Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley rules that the State and Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board must create new rules to protect human health and the environment, surface water and groundwater from agricultural pollution.

8 DECEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 Altamaha Riverkeeper and its partners succeed in preserving 4,100 acres of land for coastal Ventura Coastkeeper and Puget Soundkeeper settles a wildlife, including gopher tortoises partners earn a major victory in their major Clean Water Act suit against and longleaf pines. Working with the two-decade fight on the development Rainier Petroleum for failure to Southern Center, project Newhall Ranch, which would provide containment on their tank Altamaha Riverkeeper voiced concerns include homes for up to 60,000 farm and to control industrial about the development of wetlands residents, stores, golf courses, stormwater from their site on Seattle’s Movement and Altamaha riverfront, which schools and more. California’s waterfront. stalled potential development. This Supreme Court concluded that the compelled developers to work with environmental impact report failed The Nature Conservancy and others to show the development would not to transfer ownership of the property significantly affect greenhouse gas to Georgia’s Department of Natural emissions and that it illegally allowed Resources. for relocation of an of fish, the unarmored threespine stickleback. NOVEMBER 2015

Yarra Riverkeeper celebrates 10 Tonle Sap Lake Waterkeeper years of successes in advocating for hosts hundreds of participants southwest fisheries science center, noaa fisheries service protection of the Yarra River, including during a press conference and boat Waterkeeper Alliance, Santa halting unsustainable development, demonstration in opposition to the Barbara Channelkeeper, San stopping the last of direct industrial Don Sahong Hydropower Dam in Luis Obispo Coastkeeper and discharge, and the introduction of the Laos, one of the most controversial of local partners file civil actions against Yarra River Protection Act. 11 proposed dams to be constructed governments in Santa Barbara County on the Lower Mekong. out of concern that massive amounts of rainwater could carry polluting runoff from landfills into nearby streams, where endangered steelhead trout reproduce. nelson brooke, black warrior riverkeeper Hann Baykeeper, Bargny Coast Waterkeeper, and Black Warrior Riverkeeper thousands of community members helps scientists find the first Hale hold a climate march in Bargny, County specimen of the rare Vernal Senegal protesting the country’s last Crayfish (Procambarus viaeviridis) Waterkeepers Chesapeake proposed coal-fired power plant. while assisting with the discovery launch Fair Farms, an initiative to of numerous rare crayfish currently build a movement of environmental undescribed by science. and groups, businesses, consumers, and farmers committed to a . FEBRUARY 2016 may 2016

Baltimore Harbor The Lummi Nation, a longtime Waterkeeper and a local partner partner of Spokane Riverkeeper file a Notice of Intent to sue and Puget Soundkeeper, Baltimore-based chemical company successfully wins their fight against Erachem Comilog for dumping 12 the Gateway Pacific coal export Honors times the permitted level of nitrogen terminal in Bellingham, WA! The US into a tributary of the Patapsco River Army Corps of Engineers denied the and, ultimately, the Chesapeake Bay. permit, saying that the project would FERC denies permits for Veresen’s violate the treaty fishing rights of the Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Lummi Nation. southern Oregon after years of tireless MARCH 2016 advocacy by Rogue Riverkeeper, Columbia Riverkeeper and Chile’s Environmental Review Delaware Riverkeeper files a Klamath Riverkeeper. Authority makes official the lawsuit against the Federal Energy expiration of the permit authorizing Regulatory Commission (FERC) the construction of the Los Robles which alleges the review and approval april 2016 coal-fired plant, whichMa ule process for pipeline projects has Itata Coastkeeper and allies fundamental structural bias. Just California state court rules that San successfully opposed. weeks later, they file a second lawsuit Francisco Bay sand is a public trust challenging the approval of Transco’s resource that belongs to the public. Milwaukee Riverkeeper files a Leidy Southeast pipeline expansion. The ruling comes as a result from lawsuit against Milwaukee County in a San Francisco Baykeeper an attempt to block the issue of an lawsuit against the State Lands operating permit for Estabrook Dam. Commission for approving sand mine After an eight year battle, Cape Fear leases that contribute to erosion and Riverkeeper celebrates the end ecosystem destruction in the Bay. of Titan America’s effort to build the june 2016 Castle Hayne cement plant. The Government of Canada officially lists microbeads as toxic substances thanks to advocacy from Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Ottawa Riverkeeper and others. Waterkeepers Chesapeake, Baltimore Harbor The city of San Jose commits $100M Waterkeeper, Chester, to keeping pollution out of San Gunpowder, Midshore, Francisco Bay after San Francisco Choptank, Upper Potomac, Baykeeper discovers the city had 780 and Potomac Riverkeepers sewage spills from 2009 to mid-2014, file suit against the U.S. Environmental After 10 years of advocacy work totalling over 523,000 gallons of waste. Protection Agency over the delisting by Klamath Riverkeeper, of 53 river segments in 17 Riverkeeper the federal government signs an Maryland counties and Baltimore City. agreement to remove four dams from Push Back The Pipeline, a coalition the Klamath River; it is the largest including Savannah, Altamaha, dam removal in American history. Ogeechee and Satilla Upper and Lower James Riverkeepers, defeats the proposed Riverkeepers and the James Palmetto Pipeline, a Kinder Morgan River Association reaches a Xiang River Waterkeeper’s line that would have moved refined settlement with Dominion Virginia night patrol team at Dongting Lake petroleum products 360 miles through Power on discharges of treated finds an illegal fishing line full of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. water from coal ash ponds at the hooks set up to trap catfish and company’s Bremo Power Station in endangered finless porpoises. Thanks Fluvanna County. to the team’s discovery, the fishermen that set the trap were quickly apprehended by the local fishery department. courtesy savannah riverkeeper Honors We know that Waterkeepers are amazing advocates, but it is rewarding to see other entities around the world recognize their work. These are just a few of the accolades Waterkeepers received in fiscal year 2016. Congratulations to all our Waterkeepers for being the best and brightest clean water advocates on the planet!

Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Louisiana Dean Wilson Garden & Gun Magazine’s Hot List

Columbia Riverkeeper, Oregon Brett VandenHeuvel The Oregon State Bar’s Environmental and Natural Resources Section’s annual Leadership and Service Award

Estero Salado Waterkeeper, Ecuador Daniel Ortega Appointed the Minister for the Environment

Fundy Baykeeper, Canada Matthew Abbott Gulf of Maine Council’s 2016 Visionary Award

Grand Traverse Baykeeper, Michigan John Nelson Clarence Kroupa Lifetime Achievement Award

Hann Baykeeper, Senegal Mbacke Seck Green Trophy for the Environment

L.A. Waterkeeper, California Michael Quill, Community Programs Manager “Unsung Hero” by the California Community Foundation

Miami Waterkeeper, Florida Rachel Silverstein University of Miami’s 2016 Reitmeister-Abess Center Environmental Award South Florida Visionary Award for the Environment

Mobile Baykeeper, Alabama Casi Callaway Women Shaping the State

Qiantang River Waterkeeper, China Xin Hao Ecological Civilization Award courtesy savannah riverkeeper Rapid Response COAL SPILL IN VIETNAM JULY 2015

When catastrophic flooding in Vietnam killed 17 people after multiple coal-waste impoundments failed and buried homes, re s pon e schools, streets and business in tidal waves of polluted water, Waterkeeper Alliance quickly responded by calling on government to protect at-risk Vietnamese communities that are threatened by massive coal mines and coal-ash ponds at coal-fired power

rap id plants surrounding the Ha Long Bay World Heritage Site. The Vietnamese government WK has dramatically changed course, cutting plans to construct more than 50 new coal- AR fired power plants and shifting investment 16 to to sustainably power Vietnam’s future economic development.

Rapid Response COAL BARGE SINKS IN BANGLADESH

MARCH 2016

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2016 metric tons of coal sank in the Shela River inside the World Heritage Site. waterkeepers bangladesh In addition to the large amount of coal, hundreds of gallons of fuel oil, batteries and other toxic contaminants polluted the Shela River. Waterkeepers Bangladesh and the National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans worked with communities to demand immediate measures to protect the Pashur and Shela Rivers and the Sundarbans from unsafe shipping and increased coal e annual report annual all i an c e waterkeeper barge traffic that will result if the Rampal coal plant is built. 12 wabash riverkeeper

Rapid Response DIESEL SPILL IN ILLINOIS april 2016

Waterkeeper Alliance assisted Wabash Riverkeeper with a 48,000-gallon diesel spill from a pipeline into the Wabash River. Wabash Riverkeeper was able to obtain aerial footage of the spill, and Waterkeeper Alliance assisted by conducting research, waterkeepers bangladesh creating a map, and drafting press releases countering reports by the company that owned the pipeline, Marathon Pipe Line, that the sheen had dissipated, and highlighting the slow response of the company to the leak. re s pon e rap id

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Rapid Response OIL TRAIN DERAILMENT IN OREGON JUne 2016

Waterkeeper Alliance assisted Columbia Riverkeeper following a fiery oil train

2016 derailment next to the Columbia River in Mosier, Oregon, spilling 47,000 gallons of Bakken crude oil. Columbia Riverkeeper provided detailed updates to the public, highlighting the dangers that oil trains present to communities along their routes. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined the Yakama Nation and other Pacific Northwest Tribes in a press conference calling for an end to oil train traffic. e annual report annual all i an c e waterkeeper

14 Rapid Response PIPELINE SPILL IN CALIFORNIA JUNE 2016

On June 23, 2016, a pipeline owned and columbia riverkeeper operated by Crimson Pipeline spilled over 29,400 gallons of crude oil into Hall Canyon Barranca within the City of Ventura. Hours after the oil spill was reported, Wishtoyo Foundation and its Ventura Coastkeeper program completed an independent investigation, collecting photos showing thick black pools of oil hours after the spill was discovered. This revealed that, contrary to assertions made by Crimson Pipeline, it was not acting quickly to clean up the oil, and was instead letting it seep further into the ground and threaten wildlife. ventura coastkeeper growth

WK AR 16 500 Waterways

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16 We have made steady progress toward our goal of growing to 500 Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates worldwide by adding 45 new Member and Affiliate organizations this year. As of June 30, 2016 Waterkeeper Alliance had 292 500 Member and Affiliate organizations in 34 countries, protecting nearly 2.5 million square miles of watersheds. We added Waterkeepers in five new Waterways countries: Mongolia, Kenya, , Bhutan, and Panama. Our membership now consists of 45 percent international organizations and 55 percent U.S. organizations. growth

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New Partnerships In May 2016, we approved 10 new Himalayan Glacier Waterkeeper Affiliates in Ladakh, India. The Indus River in Ladakh is part of a major system that begins in the glaciers in Asia of western Tibet, flows north through Jammu and Kashmir in India, and south through Pakistan into the Arabian Sea. The river, its tributaries, and communities are increasingly subject to devastating floods from extreme weather events, drought from rapid glacier melt, and unsafe drinking water degraded by . 20 WK AR waterkeeper alliance annual report 16 2016 campaigns

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Clean Water Rule/ Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) Rule Challenge:

Waterkeeper Alliance filed landmark 6th Circuit litigation that will determine which streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands can be protected from pollution and destruction under the Clean Water Act. Largely to appease powerful industry advocates, EPA and the Army Corps adopted a regulation eliminating historic protections for waterways across the country, many of which impact drinking water supplies, fisheries, recreational waters, coastal estuaries, and priority habitat for threatened and endangered species. Waterkeeper Alliance led the charge against this rule and built a coalition of plaintiffs to file litigation challenging the rule, including Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, Humboldt Baykeeper, Monterey Coastkeeper, Russian Riverkeeper, Snake River Waterkeeper, Turtle Island Restoration Network, and Upper Missouri Waterkeeper. Waterkeeper Alliance is the lead plaintiff in the 6th Circuit coalition case and secured representation by the Earthrise Law Center at Lewis & Clark and the Mills Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School. clean and safe energy

Global Taylor Energy:

c ampa i gn s Keep it in the In September 2015, Waterkeeper Alliance, Apalachicola Riverkeeper, and Lower Ground: Mississippi Riverkeeper settled a three-year old case that was intended to lift the veil of secrecy on an oil-well that has been leaking since 2004 at one of Taylor WK Energy’s wells in the Gulf of Mexico. As a key term of settlement, Taylor Energy AR Waterkeeper Alliance worked with agreed to provide information about the spill since it started in 2004 and open local Waterkeeper Organizations, public access to information on an ongoing basis. Pursuant to these terms, Taylor 16 Affiliates and international partners to grow the global “Keep It in the Energy held a public forum on the oil leak in January 2016. The settlement in no Ground” movement, which demands way impacts Taylor Energy’s continuing obligation to attempt to stop the leak. that governments stop facilitating Waterkeeper Alliance similarly continues to monitor the leak and Taylor Energy’s dangerous fossil-fuel extraction, actions, and is using the settlement agreement terms to gather information about transport, consumption and the leak in order to keep the public informed. waste production. We focused on the most carbon intensive industry by working to stop construction of new coal facilities in strategic parts of Asia. Together with our international partners, we secured Environmental Justice: $1.3 billion dollars in divestment from coal companies worldwide over the past year. In February, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. held

hearings on the impacts of coal-ash storage near minority and poor communities. Waterkeeper Alliance was invited to testify. The commission is an independent agency that advises both the President and Congress and produces an annual enforcement report. Its 2016 report will focus on toxic materials produced or 2016 stored by utilities near minority neighborhoods.

Oil Trains Report:

Waterkeeper Alliance collaborated with 22 Waterkeeper Organizations to release an investigative report called Deadly Crossing: Neglected Bridges & Exploding Oil Trains. The report revealed the neglect of the nation’s rail infrastructure and how it is being stressed by oil train traffic. Waterkeepers from across the country inspected 250 railway bridges in 15 states along known and potential routes of explosive oil trains, and identified areas of serious concern on 114 bridges. In response to this finding, we are e annual report annual all i an c e waterkeeper calling for the federal government and rail industry to stop all oil train traffic on rail bridges, until they have been inspected by independent experts and the findings are shared with the public. The report generated significant media attention, and a month 22 after it was released the federal government initiated reforms intended to increase transparency about rail-bridge inspections. U.S. Coal:

Water pollution from toxic coal-ash continues to be the primary focus of our U.S. coal work. Just three years ago, Duke Energy had no plans to clean up any of its 32 leaking coal-ash ponds in North Carolina. Thanks to our on-the-water investigations, legal advocacy, and public engagement, Duke has now agreed to fully clean up 24 of those ponds, bringing an end to decades of on the Cape Fear, Catawba, Dan, French Broad, Neuse, and Yadkin Rivers. Two years after we exposed contamination in drinking water wells around Duke’s leaking coal-ash dumps, North Carolina enacted a law this year that requires Duke to pay for permanent supplies of clean drinking water for hundreds of families. Beyond North Carolina, we have continued investigating toxic coal-ash dumps in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and utilities have begun announcing plans to fully clean up several more sites where we have documented illegal pollution.

Building on our success cleaning up toxic coal ash dumps across North Carolina, this year we settled our first coal-ash enforcement case in Florida. In 2014, Waterkeeper Alliance and Apalachicola Riverkeeper sued Gulf Power Company after discovering dangerous contaminants leaking from a sixty-year-old, unlined coal-ash pond into the Apalachicola River, a certified American Treasure in the Florida Panhandle. The groups feared that the impoundment, which sits atop a bluff over the river, could suddenly fail and deposit a toxic load that would impact water quality all the way to the Apalachicola Bay. In the settlement, Gulf Power agreed to dig up all the ash from the leaking pond and move it to a dry storage area on higher ground. The company will install an impermeable cover over the landfill, and a subterranean “cutoff wall” to prevent groundwater from flowing beneath the landfill, where it could become contaminated.

Trinity Coal Settlement:

Waterkeeper Alliance, Kentucky Riverkeeper and a coalition of groups were victorious when Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet agreed to levy a stiff fine against Frasure Creek and its parent companies, Trinity Coal and New Trinity. The coalition exposed thousands of Clean Water Act violations and the settlement has the company admitting to exceeding pollution-permit limits and falsifying monitoring reports. The settlement includes a $6 million fine – the highest ever levied by Kentucky against a coal company for environmental violations.

Atlantic Oil Drilling:

Waterkeeper Alliance staff provided support and funding to Waterkeeper Organizations and Affiliates to oppose federally proposed offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. With our support, Atlantic and Gulf Coast Waterkeepers partnered with other NGOs to rally opposition to drilling from communities along the Atlantic Coast. In March 2016, the Obama Administration announced it would not include the Atlantic Ocean in the areas to be leased for oil and gas drilling in the next five years, crediting widespread opposition to drilling as a primary reason. Pure Farms, Pure Waters

Environmental Watchdogging

c ampa i gn s Justice: EPA:

We continue to work extensively with North Waterkeeper Alliance and partner NGOs have challenged an EPA WK Carolina Riverkeepers and our partners rule promulgated under federal hazardous waste and community AR throughout the state on various legal and advocacy right-to-know laws that illegally exempts industrial meat production projects, including our Title VI complaint to the operations from federal hazardous substance reporting. Briefing on 16 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office the merits of this challenge in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals of Civil Rights to help stop violations and protect is now complete, and oral arguments have been scheduled for local minority communities from exposure to hog December 2016. waste. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act requires that any recipient of federal funds take steps to ensure that its actions do not have a disproportionate adverse impact on individuals and communities Campaign based on race. An analysis conducted by Expansion: researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) demonstrated that the impacts from hog operations under permit conditions set by In October 2015, Waterkeeper Alliance staff visited China to meet North Carolina’s Department of Environmental with Waterkeeper Organizations and others working on agricultural Quality (DEQ), a recipient of federal funds, issues. Staff presented at an environmental conference in Chengdu, disproportionately impacts African American, toured Anlong Sustainable Village established by the Min River Latino and Native American populations. This Waterkeeper, visited three large swine operations with Middle Han research was provided to DEQ during the 2014 Waterkeeper, and met with experts and others working on law and

2016 comment period on the state permit for swine agricultural policy in China. In June 2016, staff and the Institute for operations, but DEQ rejected the findings Agriculture and Trade Policy conducted a U.S. Food System study without pointing to any contrary research or tour in North Carolina for several Chinese Waterkeepers as well as conducting any analysis of its own. Waterkeeper food activists and researchers from China. The tour included four Alliance, together with partners North Carolina Waterkeeper Annual Conference panels on agricultural impacts, Environmental Justice Network and Rural laws and alternatives; aerial and ground tours of poultry and swine Empowerment Center for Community Help, filed facilities with Cape Fear Riverkeeper; a sustainable organic farm the Title VI complaint, and are represented by visit; and a meeting with experts on the North Carolina CAFO attorneys at Earthjustice and UNC Center for Civil industry. The tour continued after the conference to Minneapolis for Rights. This coalition also sponsored a petition additional visits to farms and food enterprises, and for a discussion on Change.org detailing resident Elsie Herring’s about China’s agricultural and food challenges. e annual report annual all i an c e waterkeeper fight against a hog operation in her community that sprays hog waste adjacent to her home. The 24 petition has garnered close to 100,000 signatures. Washington State Dairy Permit Challenge:

Waterkeeper Alliance, Columbia Riverkeeper, WatershedPuget Soundkeeper Alliance, Snake River Waterkeeper, SMappokane Riverkeeper, North Sound Baykeeper and a broad coalition of advocacy organizations engaged in a heated battle with Washington state’s powerful dairy industry to protect the Columbia River and Puget Sound watersheds from continued pollution by dairy CAFOs. In addition to engaging in public outreach and advocacy, the coalition, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, filed a 58-page Comment Letter with 54 Exhibits on a preliminary Clean Water Act permit with the Washington Department of Ecology. The coalition is fighting to ensure the permitBase covers all medium and large CAFOS, and contains, for the firstMap time, adequate manure-management controls that are essential to stopping the industry’s contamination of Washington’s surface water, groundwater and shellfish beds.

Hazardous Substance Reporting Exemptions for CAFOs: GIS Mapping

Waterkeeper Alliance is the lead plaintiff in a legal challenge Project: to an EPA rule that exempts CAFOs from two federal public health and right-to-know laws that require reporting of In June, Waterkeeper Alliance, North Carolina Riverkeepers, and hazardous substances released into the environment. As a Environmental Working Group (EWG) launched an unprecedented result of this rule, the facilities are allowed to release huge GIS initiative to map the location and waste outputs of more than of amounts of pollution that endangers human health - 6,500 concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) across the including hydrogen sulfide and ammonia – without notifying state of North Carolina. In addition to swine and cattle CAFOs, the neighboring communities or emergency responders. In project documents the locations of over 3,900 poultry operations, response to litigation filed by Waterkeeper Alliance and its which up until now have been shielded from the people of North partners in 2009, EPA asked the court to remand the rule so Carolina. The maps, which EWG and Waterkeeper Alliance researchers the agency could revise it and address the legal challenges. constructed over three years, provide a never-before-seen aerial view of But EPA took no action and left the illegal exemption in place. the CAFOs blanketing the state. This analysis includes manure lagoons Waterkeeper Alliance and its partners filed suit to overturn from swine operations, detailing how close they are to streams, rivers the remand and the illegal exemption and, on September 23, and other public water sources - as well as their proximity to schools 2015, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted our motion and homes. to reopen the case. 26 WK AR waterkeeper alliance annual report 16 2016 events bringing in five new Leadership CircleLeadership members. infive new bringing onS aired CB inanational Bentley.televised was Dierks events Theentire of weekend as aS as well ment benefit year’s This event at the Montage D Resort. Waterkeeper’s at weekend D place signature onopening took weekend ski charity highlighting thehighlighting accomplishments ofWaterkeeper andfurthering Carolina, AllianceNorth in Waterkeeper BLU Alliance hadasuccessful ndre Balazs hosted an evening of cocktails and farm fresh horsd’oeuvres fresh Nicole andfarm Miller, ofcocktails anevening hosted andAndre Balazs Motor S Robert F.Robert Kennedy, Jr., Trustee AnnColley, Tom Chef Colicchio, Circle Leadership member Baykeeper, andWaterkeeper backyard, attendees ofthreatsintheir own reminded Alliance Moore FoundationMoore inSilicon Valley host andKen anda dedicated Moore byKris —hosted committee. The event garnered an incredible turnout of “tech titans” interested in learning of interested titans” inlearning turnout “tech anincredible eventgarnered committee. The more the about Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Longtime movement. Alliance partner, Toyota fuel cellfuel vehicle the Mirai. Jackie Birdsall, Toyota Motor S resident Robert F.President Robert Kennedy, Jr., ofthe to the spoke growth strengthandrecent global on howthe MiraiandToyota’s S works. cell fuel technology Gordon & Betty Riverpak, A ales, wowed guests upon arrival with anonsite with interactive display ofthe auto arrival giant’s upon guests wowed ales, unday, D Deer kifest was a huge success, raising over $650K in revenue and and over$650Kinrevenue raising ahuge success, was 13.Skifest ecember support ofthe Pure Pure Waters Farms, support campaign. Protecting Our Valley aturday gala and live concert by Grammy award-winning band aturday andliveconcert byGrammy band gala award-winning in North Blue Tom Colicchio Restauran Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA Deer D Fe Waterkeeper movement. e Oct c bru Water e Valley mb Celebrity o eer Valleyeer featured aFriday- tourna night poker a b E W e ry e Carolina r r A 4-7, 2015 4-7, 10,2016 7,2015 TE Series , Utah R SE Waters R event at the Gordon and Betty at andBetty the event Gordon IES ales senior engineer, senior ales presented

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Ohio Lake Erie Waterkeeper 34 WK AR waterkeeper alliance annual report 16 2016 who we are

Min Zheng,AsiaRegionalCoordinator Marc Yaggi,ExecutiveDirector Michael Shea,DevelopmentAssociate Maia Raposo,DirectorofCommunicationsandMarketing Tom Quinn,SeniorEditor Mary BethPostman,DeputyDirector Pete Nichols,NationalDirector Sergio Moncada,LatinAmericaRegionalCoordinator Bart Mihailovich,AffiliateCoordinator Katherine Luscher,SupportProjectManager Donna Lisenby,CampaignManager,CleanandSafeEnergy Larissa Liebmann,StaffAttorney,CleanandSafeEnergyCampaign Sharon Khan,InternationalDirector Robert F.Kennedy,Jr.,SeniorAttorney Will Hendrick,CampaignManager,NorthCarolinaPureFarms,Waters Pete Harrison,StaffAttorney,CleanandSafeEnergyCampaign Heather George,GrantsManager Kelly Foster,SeniorAttorney Daniel Estrin,GeneralCounselandLegalDirector Rick Dove,SeniorAdvisor Rachel Cook,OperationsDirector Christian Breen,NorthCarolinaCAFOCoordinator Lesley Adams,SeniorRegionalCoordinator the grouptoserveonBoardofDirectorsandappoints theSecretaryoforganization. Soundkeeper andSanFranciscoBaykeeper.TheWaterkeeper Councilelectssixmembersfrom and threeServicemarkCouncilmembersappointedby theHudsonRiverkeeper,LongIsland elected bytheirregion,sixAt-largeCouncilmembers electedfromtheentiremembership The WaterkeeperCouncilconsistsofupto20Councilmembers -11RegionalCouncilmembers Robert F.Kennedy,Jr.,At-large Krissy Kasserman,At-large Sharif Jamil,InternationalRegional Rep Paul Gallay,RiverkeeperMarkholder Karl Coplan,At-large Sejal Choksi,BaykeeperMarkholder Hartwell Carson,GulfRegionalRep Casi Callaway,At-large Kemp Burdette,SouthAtlanticRegionalRep Tonya Bonitatibus,At-large Marc Yaggi,ExecutiveDirector Robert F.Kennedy,Jr,President Mark Mattson Robert F.Kennedy,Jr. Grey Hecht Karl Coplan Casi Callaway Wendy Abrams Glenn Rink,Chair Waterkeeper Board officers of Staff Directors Karl Coplan,Treasurer Mary BethPostman,Secretary Council Hao Xin,AsiaRegionalRep Gary Wockner,PacificRegional Rep Chris Wilke,PacificRegional Rep Capt. BillSheehan,N.Atlantic RegionalRep Kathy Phillips,Chesapeake RegionalRep Sam Perkins,At-large Rep Rodrigo delaOGuerrero,LatinAmericaRegional Cheryl Nenn,GreatLakesRegionalRep Mark Mattson,CanadianRegionalRep Chris Wilke Gary Wockner Terry Tamminen Lessing Stern Cheryl Nenn Kris Moore Trustee Council

The Trustee Council is composed of up to 35 passionate and committed individuals advancing the mission of Waterkeeper Alliance by raising awareness of key environmental issues, widening the organization’s network of influential allies, and advocating for clean water. The Trustee Council elects six members from the group to serve on the Board of Directors and appoints the Treasurer of the organization.

Wendy Abrams Kris Moore Gay Browne Heather Richardson Ann Colley Glenn Rink James Curleigh Lessing Stern John Paul DeJoria Grey Hecht F. Daniel Gabel Tore Steen Tom Gegax Terry Tamminen Jami and Klaus Heidegger Laura Turner Seydel and Rutherford Seydel A. Judson Hill William Wachtel Ed Hubennette Yvonne Zappulla Karen Percy Lowe and Kevin Lowe Carla Zilka

Leadership Circle

The Leadership Circle is composed of passionate and committed individuals advancing the mission of Waterkeeper Alliance by raising awareness of key environmental issues, widening the organization’s network of influential allies, and advocating for clean water.

Amy Acker and James Carpinello Woody Harrelson Brian Acrish Rachael Harris and Christian Hebel Dr. Alan Andacht and Dr. Michael Maher TJ Hill Gabriele Bertaccini Katherine Kendrick William S. Brennan Ilene S. Landress Gordon Brown Karen Lehner Emmeli and Dylan Bruno Chad Lowe Jason C. Chryssicas Camryn Manheim Deanna Clarkson and Bob Smith James Manfredonia Sean Currie Michael McCulloch and Chris Kafentzis Virginia Dadey Nicole Miller Geralyn Dreyfous Diane Neal Reverend Gerald L. Durley Lewis Perkins Mark Feuerstein Bryce Perry Murray Fisher John R. Seydel Rafael Fogel Dr. William E. Smith Barnaby Furnas Don Thompson Neil Giuliano Joe Tomlinson CC Goldwater and David Sager Alexandra and Kent Weed 36 WK AR waterkeeper alliance annual report 16 2016 financials

foundations 50% REVENUE other 1% indivduals 10% & events corporations 37% direct 2% mail totals

income fundraising expenses $16,607,157 $915,934

program expenses administrative expenses $17,187,511 $305,348

end of year net assets $1,020,349

EXPENSE

2% 5% ADMIN FUNDRAISING

93% PROGRAM We are grateful for the support of our many donors over the period of July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016

$1,000,000 and up Anonymous Anonymous Foundation for the Carolinas

$500,000 - $250,000 fi nan ci al s Toyota Motor Sales, Inc. USA Orton Foundation LLC

$249,000 - $100,000 WK Anonymous AR Henry Smith and Esther Smith Trust Trammel Crow 16 Growald Family Fund Sonia and Paul Tudor Jones Henry Smith and Esther Smith Trust Marisla Foundation Swedish Postcode Foundation

$99,000 - $50,000 Butler Conservation Fund, Inc. Energy Foundation Moore Charitable Foundation Moore Family Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Ralph Lauren Corporation Royal Street Corporation

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38 $49,999 - $25,000 Wendy and James Abrams $9,999 - $5,000 Begin Today for Tomorrow Amy and Barry Baker Celebrity Fight Night David Bonderman Dancing Tides Foundation Inc. Boston Properties Foundation, Inc. Breckinridge Capital Advisors Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gay Browne John Paul Mitchell Systems Yvon Chouinard Koaniani Fund of the Hawai’i Community Gary Comorau Foundation Julie Denkers-Bishop LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics Geralyn Dreyfous The Horn Foundation Environment Now Foundation John Schnatter Jeff Grady Wallace Genetic Foundation Nora and Madison Grose Alexandra and Kent Weed HBO Christine and Robert Hon $24,999 - $10,000 Robert Horowitz Accenture Keith Campbell Foundation Michele and Gordon Brown Kari and Mike Kirk Rafael Fogel Kobra International Ltd. Heidi and Chris Gegax Kathleen Krampf Jami and Klaus Heidegger Lear Family Foundation Hollomon Price Foundation Jean McCulloch Palmer Hill and Chad Irwin Scott McKay Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Orchard Foundation Dr. Mark Hyman Anthony Pasquariello Chris Kafentzis and Michael McCulloch Pisces Foundation Robert Lowry Maria and Fred Ragucci Nicole Miller and Kim Taipale Heather Richardson Kris and Ken Moore Daniel Shapiro Park Foundation Lisa and Joel Shine Raymond James Charitable Foundation Spurlino Foundation Resnick Family Foundation, Inc. Elizabeth Steele Jack Riccobono Janet and Gottfried Tittiger Rowland & Sylvia Schaefer Family Foundation Katherine Sparrow Tyson Shake Shack van der Stricht Trust Irina and Yevgeny Shchemelev Ed Wilson Mark Shumate Rosa Zubizarreta Dr. William Smith Solberg Manufacturing, Inc. Rachel and Brad Stephens John Swift Victoria Ward Willard L. Eccles Charitable Foundation Winstar Products, LLC Penelope and Philip Wright

Waterkeeper Alliance is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), member supported organization based in New York, N.Y. We are governed by a 13-member Board of Directors and are supported by member contributions, foundation grants, corporate sponsorship, events and other income. Our most recent audited financial statements and IRS 990 forms can be found on our website. For additional tax and financial information please contact our Operations Director Rachel Cook at [email protected]. FISCAL YEAR 2016

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