WSFA 12 – HAYNEVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) – Dozens of activists gathering in Hayneville early Saturday morning to urge the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding to fix the Lowndes County sewage crisis. A deal reached in 2023 was terminated by the U.S. Justice Department earlier this year.

“In the matter of a stroke of a pen, 26 million dollars was canceled that was promised two years ago, and the word that came to me, that’s an atrocity!” Agnes Lover, the pastor at Montgomery’s St. Paul A.M.E. Church shouted to the crowd. “How would you like to grow up and raw sewage is in your front yard, or in your back yard? Then the infestation from diseases that may come from that.”

Protestors marching half a mile to the county courthouse, brandishing signs with messages like “everyone deserves good sanitation,” and “flush injustice, not our future.”

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