
Ben Raines
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Sep 23, 2026
Midday Mobile | September 23, 2026 (Full Show)
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55:15Greg GraberGUEST
So in the case of the watershed that pours water from across the state.
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55:20Greg GraberGUEST
So Alabama has a lot of water, as Ben Raines has talked about.
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55:23Greg GraberGUEST
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.
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55:47Greg GraberGUEST
And so Generally considered, we're the fourth largest watershed by volume, the amount of water that flows out.
Midday Mobile | September 23, 2026
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55:15Greg GraberGUEST
So in the case of the watershed that pours water, um, from across the state, so Alabama has a lot of water.
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55:22Greg GraberGUEST
As Ben Raines has talked about, it's about 130,000 miles of rivers, right?
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55:25Sean SullivanHOST
Mm-hmm.
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55:26Greg GraberGUEST
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-
Midday Mobile | Greg Graeber (Dauphin Island Sea Lab) | September 23, 206
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16:24Greg GraeberGUEST
So it, you know, everybody measures something different, right? So in the case of the watershed that pours water from across the state.
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16:33Greg GraeberGUEST
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.
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17:00Greg GraeberGUEST
And so generally considered we're the fourth largest watershed by volume, the number of, you know, the amount of water that flows out.
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17:10Greg GraeberGUEST
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.
Midday Mobile | Apryl Marie Fogel + John Sharp | September 22, 2026
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77:32Sean SullivanHOST
But that would be great, yes, to celebrate the thing that makes us special, right? One of the things that makes us special.
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77:40Sean SullivanHOST
By the way, too, go look around, and I'll send texts to Ben Raines about that when I hear it elsewhere.
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77:46Sean SullivanHOST
That thing has gotten ripped off more often maybe than John Sharp's work.
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77:52Sean SullivanHOST
And do have a heads up for those websites.
Midday Mobile - Captain Richard Rutland - 8-28-26
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30:07Richard RutlandGUEST
Right.
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30:08Richard RutlandGUEST
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.
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30:13Richard RutlandGUEST
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30:13Sean SullivanHOST
like scuba dive, too.