Alabama 4H Center

Columbiana, Alabama

A full service conference facility nestled within 264 acres of beautiful forest land on Lay Lake in Columbiana. They offer a variety of lodging and meeting facility options as well as onsite catering designed to meet the needs of your group.

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Water Quality

Meets water quality standards
Current Status
This status is based on the latest sample, taken on May 26th, 2023. Coosa Riverkeeper updates the status of this beach as soon as test results become available. These results were posted to Swim Guide on May 26th, 2023 at 10:54 AM.

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Source Information

Coosa Riverkeeper staff, interns, and volunteers monitor water quality at sites in this region. Sampling season starts May 27 and ends Labor Day Weekend.

Water at all sites is sampled for E. coli, total coliform, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, total dissolved solids and conductivity. More in-depth data is viewable at www.CoosaRiver.org/SwimGuide

Coosa Riverkeeper utilizes the standardized state and federal criteria of 235 col/100 ml for collecting and analyzing water samples. Test results are expressed as Most Probable Number (MPN) of E.coli cfu (colony forming units) per 100 ml.

Water samples are collected every Thursday. Results are posted as soon as lab results are available on Friday (typically around noon CT). Results here on Swim Guide indicate E. coli concentrations, further data reporting on other water quality characteristics are published at coosariver.org/swimguide

A beach is marked Green when single sample results are under 126 E.coli / 100 ML water.

A beach is marked Red when the results are equal to or above 126 E.coli / 100 ML water.

A beach is marked Grey when there are no current results or there is no available information.

Water Quality Graph

Beach	Location	Water Quality
Bulley Creek Columbiana, Alabama	Columbiana, Alabama	Current Status
Shelby Shores Shelby, Alabama	Shelby, Alabama	Current Status
Beeswax Creek Park Columbiana, Alabama	Columbiana, Alabama	Current Status
Cedar Creek Marina Cedar Creek, Alabama	Cedar Creek, Alabama	Current Status

Beach

Location

Water Quality

Bulley Creek

Columbiana, Alabama

Current Status

Shelby Shores

Shelby, Alabama

Current Status

Beeswax Creek Park

Columbiana, Alabama

Current Status

Cedar Creek Marina

Cedar Creek, Alabama

Current Status

	Green means the beach’s most recent test results met relevant water quality standards.

	Red means the beach’s most recent test results failed to meet water quality standards.

	Grey means water quality information for the beach is too old (more than 7 days old) to be considered current, or that info is unavailable, or unreliable.

	Green means the beach passed water quality tests 95% of the time or more.

	Yellow means the beach passed water quality tests 60-95% of the time.

	Red means the beach failed water quality tests 40% of the time or more.

	This means that this site has been issued a Blue Flag status for the current swimming season. This status does not indicate current water quality.

	Red means the water at the site has water quality issues or there is an emergency.

	Grey means there is no current water quality information, the beach is under construction, there has been an event that has rendered water quality information unreliable or unavailable.