Update 2025-02-14: Five days of changes in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report 2025-02-14. A step backwards: Sugar Creek tested too high in E. coli at Gornto Road for Wednesday. It’s not as high as in many weeks, but still above the alert limit. And there had been no rain to wash anything into the creek. So, […]
Update 2025-01-26: Cleaner but still dirty Sugar Creek 2025-01-24. Due to the ice storm, nobody sampled this week since Monday: not WWALS and not Valdosta. So here is what data we do have from Friday about Sugar Creek (filthy), Sunday about Franks Creek and the Withlacoochee River (good), and Monday about the New River in […]
Upate 2025-01-18: Alapaha River clean, Sugar Creek worse 2025-01-16. For Wednesday water quality samples, The Little River at US 82 west of Tifton, Georgia, tested OK, as did the Withlacoochee River at GA 133, US 84, and Holly Point four miles from the Suwannee. The New River on 18th Street in Tifton tested too high […]
Update 2021-02-26: Nothing obvious attributable to the Tifton spills in downstream water quality monitoring, and Very clean Thursday, Withlacoochee River 2021-02-25. Tifton, we have a problem. Tifton, do you read? Two days after Tifton’s three sewage spills Tuesday last week, Tifton spilled five times more the following Thursday, February 18, 2021. Two of the new […]
Valdosta wasn’t the only city to spill sewage in the recent storms, but Tifton’s spill was tiny by comparison. Following up a rumor, I called the city of Tifton and eventually got to Tommy Coker, Wastewater Superintendent, Tifton Regional Waste Water Treatment Complex (TRE). You won’t find him listed on Tifton’s website, because he works […]
Update 2025-04-11: Clean Sugar Creek and Little River 2025-04-09, Dirty downstream Withlacoochee River 2025-04-10. WWALS water quality tester Samantha Carr found the New River dirty at 18th Street in Tifton, GA, but clean downstream at GA 125. Valdosta Utilities found the Withlacoochee River dirty at GA 133, downstream of Sugar Creek. See previous report about […]
On the SRWMD Board Agenda for April 8, 2025, related to the Lands Committee proposal to convey three spring parks to Suwannee County, SRWMD hasn’t even finished its planned work on Telford Spring, and Falmouth Springs is still closed due to hurricane damage. See page 48 in the Land Management Update Report. Telford Spring: In […]
After the 2024 election, there are two new Georgia Statehouse members in the Suwannee River Basin: Jaclyn Ford and Angie O’Steen. For the entire list Georgia Statehouse members from the Basin, see: https://wwals.net/about/elected-officials/georgia-house/ New GA Statehouse Reps, Suwannee River Basin, Jaclyn Ford Dist. 170, Angie O’Steen Dist. 169 Penny Houston retired, and the new Representative […]
Update 2025-02-08: Withlacoochee River and New River clean, Sugar Creek Dirty 2025-02-06. Finally! Valdosta Utilities got OK water quality results for Sugar Creek at Gornto Road, for the first time since the November 6-7, 2024, flash flood. Apparently the bypass is working. WWALS got OK results for the New Little River south of Tifton and […]
It’s back: the Georgia Historical Society marker for the town of Troupville. It’s on the north side of GA-133 (St. Augustine Road), west of I-75 exit 18, just east of the Withlacoochee River. Troupville Town Site Historical Marker 2024, Georgia Historical Society, Plus UDC marker TROUPVILLE The settlement of Troupville once existed near here, about […]
