It was a fun and educational day at the Second Annual Okefenokee Folk Festival. Thanks to Chris “Turtleman” Adams for inviting us. Okefenokee Folk Festival, Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross, GA, May 5, 2025 It was also Sue Clark Day, referring to the late Sue Clark, who “spearheaded the creation of Southern Forest World and the […]
Update 2025-05-05: Pictures: 2nd Annual Okefenokee Folk Festival, Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross, GA 2025-05-03. Join us at the WWALS booth in Waycross, Georgia, at the Second Annual Okefenokee Folk Festival. Thanks to Chris “Turtleman” Adams for inviting us to the Okefenokee Heritage Festival for this event. We’ll be talking about the Okefenokee Swamp and the […]
“Beyond Trail Ridge, cities and counties in the Suwannee River Basin value the Okefenokee Swamp and the Suwannee River, and are passing resolutions supporting the Okefenokee Swamp and legislation protecting it, including the City of Valdosta and Clinch and Echols Counties,” said Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman. Douglas Now, November 10, 2023, GEORGIA CONSERVATIONISTS MEET […]
“Well, it is unsightly, it is disgusting, and it’s been going on for years.” No, he’s not talking about trash coming down Valdosta creeks into the Withlacoochee River, but he might as well be. It’s a report from Mobile, Alabama, about the Bandalong trash trap in a canal just upstream from the Satilla River in […]
The Georgia Department of Health published many positive downwards trends in contaminants, and some big “cannot conclude”s last summer, when it released through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a Public Health Assessment, CSX TRANSPORTATION — RAIL YARD SITE, WAYCROSS, WARE COUNTY, GEORGIA. Most of the graphs show downward trends, like this one, of […]
At least the Waycross cancer problem is finally getting some news media attention. Brenda Goodman and Andy Miller, Georgia Health News, October 20, 2016, Why are kids in Waycross getting cancer? (Part One of Special Report), Fourteen-year-old Lexi Crawford was attacked by lower back pain so sharp that she couldn’t even sit up to eat. […]
The Waycross superfund mess. See: Public Health Assessment of Rice Rail Yard, Waycross, GA 2018-06-07 Cancer in Waycross and the upper Suwannee River watershed WWALS in Waycross at EPA Seven Out Superfund meeting Waycross Superfund site in Georgia’s Dirty Dozen For more recent posts, see: blog posts with Waycross tagged.
This paragraph sums it up: The project’s stated purpose in the EA is “economic development,” as part of the Governor’s Road Improvement Program created in the 1980s. See EA at 4. The NEPA regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) require agencies to examine the indirect impacts of projects — those growth-inducing impacts […]
GDOT and the Army Corps want to widen U.S. 84 from Homerville to Waycross. Since it appears that US 84 is already four lane from Thomasville through Quitman and Valdosta to Homerville, and from Waycross onwards northeast, this would be the remaining gap. The public notice says little or nothing about why this road work […]
Bacterial Monitoring on Friday and Chemical Monitoring on Saturday in Waycross, by Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (AAS), Satilla Riverkeeper, and other. This is not a WWALS event, but everyone is invited. -jsq
