The deadline to comment on GA-EPD environmental variance request BV-077-25-01 is July 11, 2025. (PDF) https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/GADNR/2025/06/11/file_attachments/3290440/BV-077-25-01%20Irwin%20County%20PUBLIC%20NOTICE.pdf It’s for replacing a bridge at County Road (CR) 181/Satilla Road at Willacoochee River Overflow (GPS Coordinates:_31.563505, -83.170928). Willacoochee River overflow, Satilla Road variance, BV-077-25-01, Irwin County 2025-06-12 That’s six miles east of Ocilla, in Irwin County, Georgia.
See the Alapaha River for yourself, in these 360-degree views, on Earthviews, taken in August 2021 by WWALS member Bobby McKenzie. Willacoochee Landing, overhanging branches, GA & FL RR, mile marker, beach, Lakeland Boat Ramp; ARWT map Willacoochee Landing @ GA 135 to Berrien Beach Boat Ramp @ GA 168 That’s 19.17 river miles, on […]
Bring a rope in case we need to drag the boats across deadfalls, and expect low-hanging branches, as we experience the wilderness from Rowetown Church Landing to Willacoochee Landing, on the Alapaha River Water Trail, continuing Alapaha Quest. When: 8 AM, Saturday, August 11, 2018 Put In: Rowetown Church Landing, 1291 Rowetown Church Road, Alapaha, […]
Update 2020-09-07: This location is now known as Nashville Landing. There is a long sandy beach upstream from the bridge, which is a popular summer hangout for locals. Bret Wagenhorst took these pictures 14 September 2014. See also Alapaha River Water Trail.
Hahira, Georgia, June 19, 2025 — Speakers from Georgia and Florida will talk about where to paddle Georgia rivers and legal issues with that, as well as contamination in the Withlacoochee River in north Florida, much of it coming from Georgia, at the WWALS River Revue, September 6, 2025. Suzanne Welander wrote the book on […]
We’ll hear all about wildflower species in north Florida, and maybe even how to prepare habitat for them, from the Communications Coordinator of the Florida Wildflower Foundation, Emily Bell. When: noon-1 PM, Thursday, June 26, 2025 Where: Register here to attend online by zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DRwhEcDjQWqK4Qr9Srnegg WWALS Board Member Janet Martin will give a brief introduction. […]
Hahira, Georgia May 22, 2025 — Rachel Grubb of Lake City, Florida, will sing her haunting encore from last year, as well as the song she won with, as Headliner for the 2025 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest. Come hear the finalists this year, Saturday, September 6, 2025, at the Turner Center for the Arts, in […]
Hahira, Georgia, March 28, 2025 — Submissions open April 1, really, no fooling, for the 2025 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest. WWALS Board Member Scotti Jay said, “It will be even more fun this year!” The Eighth Annual Finals will be held at the WWALS River Revue, an indoor fundraising dinner, to benefit WWALS Watershed Coalition, […]
Hahira, Georgia, February 19, 2025 — Back again on the first Saturday in September, it’s the WWALS River Revue, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia. Featuring food and drink, speakers and new songs about waterways in the Suwannee River Basin. Plus a silent auction and plaques and prizes for the songwriting […]
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 […]
