November 6, 2023 Update: The ADEM school and daycare lead testing program is drawing to a close. The Alabama State Department of Education will be administering future grant funding for testing and remediation efforts at public schools. Childcare centers are encouraged to continue with EPA’s 3Ts program, and to utilize one of the state’s certified laboratories for testing. We thank all of you that participated in this successful program!
ADEM employees are State merit system employees and are hired through the State of Alabama's Personnel Department. Opportunities for great careers are available with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
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The Air Division is charged with the responsibility of insuring that Alabama's air quality meets federal standards. The Air Division has several QA/QC methods that can be used in order to analyze the quality of Alabama's air. Computer models use air emissions to simulate what the ground-level concentrations of a pollutant(s) would be using meteorological data and terrain information. Stack tests are conducted to measure the actual levels of emissions that are being released by a facility. Emission inventories use the past year's actual emissions to analyze emission trends.
The Municipal Section manages the NPDES program for municipal (point source and municipal stormwater) and non-industrial sources such as semi-public and private facilities.
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ADEM supports the MBNEP through participation on their Policy Committee, Management Committee and various working groups. The Department assisted in the preparation of the NEP comprehensive monitoring plan and is a cooperator in an atmospheric deposition monitoring effort. Departmental staff also provide vital links between the NEP and the various ADEM environmental programs, the Gulf of Mexico Program and the Alabama Coastal Programs.
Here are some additional sites you might like to visit as you learn more about how to protect Alabama's waterways.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
U.S. Coast Guard
Alabama estuaries cover an area of 610 square miles, including Mobile Bay, the fourth largest estuary on the North American continent. Mobile Bay drains a watershed of approximately 43,662 square miles, receiving an average of 460,000 gallons per second of freshwater.
A comprehensive program of environmental management for the state was established in 1982 with the passage by the Alabama Legislature of the Alabama Environmental Management Act. The law created the Alabama Environmental Management Commission and established the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which absorbed several commissions, agencies, programs and staffs that had been responsible for implementing environmental laws.