Downstream from Spook Bridge on the Withlacoochee River, Phil Hubbard and I took a side trip up Okapilco Creek. Okapilco Creek 2025-03-22, Withlacoochee River, Piscola Creek, Patrick Creek We passed Piscola Creek and Patrick Creek. We went up Okapilco Creek about a mile. Then we encountered a deadfall across the creek. We could have sawed […]
Songwriters, please send in your song by August 7, as Bill Osborne and I reminded everyone on his morning drive radio show at 7:30 this morning. The Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest finals will be Saturday, September 7, 2024, during the WWALS River Revue, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia. Send songs […]
We cut a deadfall in the Withlacoochee River just below Wetherington Branch, below Valdosta’s treated outfall from its Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant. We found Okapilco Creek, cut a few deadfalls in there, and collected some trash on the creek and from the river. Including two blue barrels labeled Black Tea Extract that apparently had been […]
It’s actually two bridges closed: over what GDOT calls Brice Pond Tributary Bridge and over Okapilco Creek. There are detours shorter between Pavo and Barney than GDOT indicates. Which is fortunate, since the closure is very long: from 7 AM April 11, 2023 to 4 PM July 31, 2024, according to GDOT 511. Creeks and […]
Update 2020-12-19: Bad Knights Ferry Thursday, Withlacoochee River 2020-12-17. Valdosta’s downstream test results show the Withlacoochee River still clean on the day of the Quitman sewage spill, Wednesday, December 9, and on that Friday and Monday, just as Madison Health and WWALS results showed for the Friday. Clean downstream, and likely spill sites Valdosta did […]
Update 2020-08-18: Good upstream water quality, Little, Withlacoochee, Okapilco, worst Crooked Creek @ 2020-08-16 The Withlacoochee River looks good for boating, swimming, and fishing this weekend, according to the latest water quality testing results, despite a contamination incident earlier this week. Chart and Map More than an inch of rain at Moultrie Monday washed E. […]
Update 2020-03-26: Cleaner downstream with no rain 2020-03-24. Two days after rain, Crooked Creek was still filthy Friday. Some of that probably got into the Withlacoochee River. WWALS continues testing. You can help. Too high For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of all known data sources see https://wwals.net/issues/testing/. This is in Brooks County, […]
Update 2020-03-16: More testing needed to track river pollution –Suwannee Riverkeeper in Gainesville Sun 2020-03-16. No rain for a week (since March 5th) meant not much E. coli washed into creeks and rivers. WWALS is testing upstream this weekend. You can help. WWALS Composite table For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of data […]
Update 2020-02-18: Withlacoochee still not clean Thursday but not alarming in Florida results 2020-02-13. Update 2020-02-14: Fixed typo; apparently FDOH tests were collected Monday, February 10, 2020. Lowndes County’s upstream results for Tuesday, February 11, 2020, are as bad at US 84 as FDOH’s result at CR 150 (Sullivan Launch) the previous day. Yes, Okapilco […]
Update 2020-02-12: Madison Co., FL Withlacoochee River Bacterial Advisory 2020-02-11. Good another Wednesday: Lowndes County water quality results for the Withlacoochee River. Meanwhile, about an inch of rain registered upstream Thursday. We will have more WWALS results in a day or so. The only way to tell what is in our waterways is regular, frequent, […]
