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Coverage of Bear Point from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Engineers with Thompson Engineering presented a drainage basin study and stormwater master plan for Orange Beach's Bear Point neighborhood, mapping flood-prone areas and recommending roughly $5 million in priority improvements.
Orange Beach's City Council will review a completed Bear Point stormwater master plan and consider new rules for bicycles, micromobility devices and electric motorcycles at its Aug. 18 meeting.
A brutal summer heat wave left back-bay waters near Orange Beach starved of oxygen, killing schools of small fish from Cotton Bayou to Bear Point.
Orange Beach firefighters battled a pre-dawn blaze that destroyed two boats at Bear Point Marina, with no injuries reported.