Avoid Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River from there to the Little River Confluence.
We’ve postponed the chainsaw cleanup on that stretch for a week, to February 28.
The Alapaha, Little, and Santa Fe Rivers tested good. The New River tested OK at US 82, but as usual bad upstream.
This is all from WWALS results for Thursday (and Wednesday for the Santa Fe). We have no new results from Valdosta Utilities since our last report, when they got horrible numbers for the Withlacoochee at GA 133 and US 84.
No new sewage spills have been reported this week in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida.
So happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating this sunny Saturday, before the cold snap sets in.
This image is an illustration. Scroll down for the details.
Clean Santa Fe, Alapaha Rivers; Cleaner Withlacoochee, New Rivers; Avoid Withlacoochee River below Sugar Creek 2026-02-19
Follow this link for the WWALS composite spreadsheet of water quality results, rainfall,
and sewage spills in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia and Florida:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing/#results
The image below is a current excerpt from that spreadsheet. Continue reading

![[Nobody liked Jacksonville wastewater into the Suwannee Basin at a Live Oak meeting 2026-02-05, News by WUFT 2026-02-19]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-05--wfnf-scrp/fbmany.jpg)
![[Water First North Florida, Columbia BOCC 2026-02-19, WWALS Letter, SRWMD Letter]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-19--wwals-wfnf-columbia-bocc/fbmany.jpg)
![[Filthy Withlacoochee River and Sugar Creek 2026-02-17, After big rains, But clean far downstream]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-17--wq/many.jpg)
![[FL SB 64: Reclaimed Water, nonbeneficial surface water discharge, JEA Buckman Wastewater Plant, and WFNF 2025-2032]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2021-06-29--fl-sb-64/fbmany.jpg)
![[Consent Order on JEA Buckman Wastewater Treatment Plant --FDEP 2025-09-15]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-09-15--fdep-consent-order-jea/fbmany.jpg)
![[So-called AI hallucinates, no matter how good its training data --OpenAI 2025-09-18]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-09-18--computerworld-ai-hallucinations/fbmany.jpg)
![[Clean Withlacoochee, Ichetucknee, and Santa Fe Rivers; Dirty New River upstream, 2026-02-09-12]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-12--wq/many.jpg)
![[Video: Jacksonville Wastewater into Suwannee Basin, WWALS Webinar, online by zoom 2026-02-12]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-02-12--jax-wastewater-into-suwannee-basin-video/fbmany.jpg)
![[Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Conservation in Action, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 1945]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/1948-01-01--okefenokee-nwr/many.jpg)