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Ben Raines

Ben Raines

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Sep 23, 2026

Greg GraberGUEST
55:15
So in the case of the watershed that pours water from across the state.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:20
So Alabama has a lot of water, as Ben Raines has talked about.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:23
It's about 130,000 miles of rivers, right? Well, about 100,000 miles of that pour into Mobile Bay when you drive under the, you know, when you drive above it on the Bayway, right? So the deal is, the number is about 42 billion gallons of fresh water flow in a day from that area.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:47
And so Generally considered, we're the fourth largest watershed by volume, the amount of water that flows out.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:15
So in the case of the watershed that pours water, um, from across the state, so Alabama has a lot of water.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:22
As Ben Raines has talked about, it's about 130,000 miles of rivers, right?
Sean SullivanHOST
55:25
Mm-hmm.
Greg GraberGUEST
55:26
Well, about 100,000 miles of that pour into Mobile Bay when you drive under the, uh, you know, when, when you drive above it on the Bay Way, right? So the deal is, uh, the number is about 42 billion gallons of fresh water-
Greg GraeberGUEST
16:24
So it, you know, everybody measures something different, right? So in the case of the watershed that pours water from across the state.
Greg GraeberGUEST
16:33
So Alabama has a lot of water, as Ben Raines has talked about, it's about 130,000 miles of rivers, right? Well, about 100,000 miles of that pour into Mobile Bay when you drive under the, you know, when you drive above it on the Bayway, right? So the deal is, the number is about 42 billion gallons of fresh water flow in a day from that area.
Greg GraeberGUEST
17:00
And so generally considered we're the fourth largest watershed by volume, the number of, you know, the amount of water that flows out.
Greg GraeberGUEST
17:10
So there are bigger geographic ones, right? So the Chesapeake, that's probably more popular than us, you know, in just the scheme of estuaries and that sort of thing.
Sean SullivanHOST
77:32
But that would be great, yes, to celebrate the thing that makes us special, right? One of the things that makes us special.
Sean SullivanHOST
77:40
By the way, too, go look around, and I'll send texts to Ben Raines about that when I hear it elsewhere.
Sean SullivanHOST
77:46
That thing has gotten ripped off more often maybe than John Sharp's work.
Sean SullivanHOST
77:52
And do have a heads up for those websites.
Richard RutlandGUEST
30:07
Right.
Richard RutlandGUEST
30:08
We'll bring Ben Raines and he can scuba dive down there and tell us what's down there, right? He loves to get wet.
Richard RutlandGUEST
30:13
I
Sean SullivanHOST
30:13
like scuba dive, too.

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