I received your voicemail requesting an in-person meeting and
property survey.
As stated in my previous correspondence dated August 24, 2026, I do
not consent to any surveying, mapping, or physical entry onto my
unencumbered acreage. Because our formal objection, structural
constraints, and pre-existing water and land infrastructure have
already been clearly outlined and filed with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC), an in-person meeting will not change
our position.
Kira Pollock is the first to file a complaint with the FERC about Sabal Trail’s plan to gouge a second pipeline next to the one they built a decade ago.
That’s the old Sabal Trail docket, and nothing else has been filed in it since May 2025.
The 2025 activity was just regular reports and a request and grant of extension of time for Sabal Trail Phase III.
That’s an old project that was already delayed several years.
It was to expand capacity of the old pipeline by a small amount.
This Sabal Trail Expansion Project would approximatly double the amount
of fracked methane.
As
previously mentioned,
The only “economic development” I can see that would cause this is hyper-scale AI datacenters.
You can send in your own comments, so nobody can say there were no objections.
Just go to ferc.gov -> FERC Online -> Login -> New User and make yourself an account.
Then go to FERC Online Home -> eComment and comment in Docket Number CP15-17-000.
I am writing to share some important neighborhood feedback and
formally log my concerns regarding the proposed Sabal Trail
Expansion Project study corridor as it relates to my property and
our immediate neighborhood within the Quail Hollow subdivision in
Suwannee County, Florida. I understand that your team is currently
in the planning and information-gathering phase, so I wanted to
reach out cooperatively to bring some significant physical,
structural, and hydrological bottlenecks in our neighborhood to your
attention so we can avoid issues down the road.
After reviewing the track of your current 36-inch mainline easement Continue reading →
A truck this afternoon leaked quite a bit of diesel into a storm drain at the Racetrac on US 84, West Hill Avenue, just west of I-75 Exit 16, Valdosta Georgia.
That’s near the Briarwood Road exit from the Racetrac service station.
That area drains into Mud Swamp Creek, to the Alapahoochee, Alapaha, and Suwannee Rivers.
According to Racetrac staff inside, who were reviewing CCTV video,
the spill started about 2:30 PM and the Valdosta Fire Department was there by about 3:30 PM.
I was alerted to this event by texted pictures from a WWALS member at 4 PM.
And I got there about 5:15 PM.
VFD personnel did not have an estimate of gallons spilled.
Valdosta City Engineer Ben O’Dowd responded at 6:39 PM, “EPD was notified immediately following the incident by VFD as well as the gas station and are coordinating cleanup directly with the responsible party.”
The Local Industrial Development Authority of Irwin County
on August 18, 2026, apparently for the first time.
Supposedly there are nine members, but they were not all present.
They didn’t say anything until the very end about datacenters, which was why this board was formed.
This meeting was entirely about attorney, officers, bylaws, training required by the state, and next meeting: 8 AM, Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
This Authority
was approved by the Irwin County Commission on
June 3, 2026.
As near as I can tell, the members were appointed at the July 6 County Commission meeting.
I cannot find any agenda nor minutes on the Irwin County website for that July meeting.
Will Spicer sent this report and video from the August 18 meeting.
My edits are marked with [square brackets].
I went to the inaugural meeting of the Development Authority of
Irwin County tonight. It was held in a small board room in a
building about 1 block from the hospital. I gather this space
belongs to the Hospital Authority and it is used for hospital board
meetings.
In attendance were [7 of 9 of the new board’s members.
Clockwise from the end of the table: Continue reading →
The Withlacoochee and Santa Fe Rivers tested clean this week.
No new sewage spills were reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in
Florida
or
Georgia,
but there was an update on the August 5 Tifton spill.
So according to the results we have,
happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating,
if you can avoid the rains.
This image is an illustration.
Scroll down for the details.
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 →
The moon rose before the sun set over Banks Lake.
Not just any moon: a supermoon.
The moon’s orbit is not a circle, and it was the closest it ever comes,
appearing 18% larger than some other times.
Thanks to Kimberly Godden Tanner for leading
this paddle.
A little drizzle didn’t stop us.
The bats didn’t come out, but we heard them in their tree.
Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson and Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman
discussed the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest last Thursday
at the Mayor’s day job, the radio show he owns and hosts on talk921.fm.
Songs can be about any waterbody in the 10,000-square mile Suwannee River Basin
or Estuary in Georgia or Florida, including the Withlacoochee, Little, Alapaha, Alapahoochee, or Suwannee Rivers,
or the Okefenokee Swamp, or any other river, creek, swamp, or sink.
Plus underground waters such as the Floridan Aquifer.
Songwriters can be from anywhere; they come from as far as Tennessee and south Florida.
Once we get those last few songs from the procrastinating songwriters,
the organizing committee will select Finalists.
The Finalists will play at WWALS River Revue, 5-9 PM, Saturday, September 12, 2026,
at the Lowndes County 4-H Club in Lake Park, Georgia, on Long Pond.
When you buy a ticket, you get to hear them along with the three judges,
who will select the winners.
And you get a sit-down dinner with cash bar, Headliner Joe First, who is last year’s winner, and two speakers:
Amy Sharma of Science for Georgia, talking about hyper-scale AI datacenters.
Rick Davis, Chair of the dozen-county Florida Task Force, talking about
Water First North Florida (WFNF), the currently-hibernating scheme
to pipe treated wastewater from Jacksonville into wetlands in the Suwannee Basin.
Dennis Norman, the landowner with the big hole in his driveway at 4637 Rustic Ridge Road,
said his wife did a video recording of the children back in 2019
and he saw the crack in the driveway then.
He told the county about it this spring, before his driveway collapsed.
Last Wednesday he was waiting around for somebody from the county to come out,
who apparently already had, and I finally got his Commissioner to call him.
According to the dictionary and USGS, it’s a sinkhole.
The question is what caused it: “gradual soil movement”, a sewer pipe break, or a contractor running something along the road?
The Alapaha River tested clean last Friday, but the Town of Alapaha Wastewater Treatment Outflow was filthy.
The Withlacoochee River tested clean for Monday and for Wednesday downstream.
The only sewage spill reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in
Florida
or
Georgia,
was a 25,000 gallon spill into Hat Creek on August 2,
that
Ashburn, Georgia
didn’t report to GA-EPD until Monday, August 10. That’s upstream of the Alapaha River.
According to the results we have,
happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating,
if you can avoid the rains.
This image is an illustration.
Scroll down for the details.
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 →
![[Re: Voicemail, I still do not consent to any surveying, mapping, or physical entry onto my unencumbered acreage --Kira Pollock to Sabal Trail 2026-08-25]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-25--stt-kira-pollock/many.jpg)
![[Denial of Survey Consent, Kira Pollock to FERC, about Sabal Trail Expansion Project 2026-08-24]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-24--ferc-kira-pollock/fbmany.jpg)
![[Diesel spill, Racetrac, Valdosta, GA, US 84, I-75 Exit 16, 2026-08-22, Drains to Mud Swamp Creek, Alapahoochee, Alapaha, Suwannee Rivers]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-22--diesel-spill-racetrak-us-84-valdosta/fbmany.jpg)
![[Local Development Authority of Irwin County 2026-08-22, Apparently its first meeting, Maybe appointed July 6]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-18--video-irwin-county-local-development-authority/fbmany.jpg)
![[Clean Withlacoochee and Santa Fe Rivers, No new sewage spills, Happy paddling 2026-08-19]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-19--wq/many.jpg)
![[Full Hunter's Moon Paddle, Banks Lake, 2026-10-26]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-10-26--full-hunters-moon-paddle/fbmany.jpg)
![[Full Hunters Moon Paddle, Banks Lake NWR, West of Lakeland, GA, 2025-10-06]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-10-06--banks-lake-full-hunters-moon-pictures/fbmany.jpg)
![[Songs for Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest by August 19, on Scott James radio, Finalists play September 12, 2026]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-13--scott-james-radio/fbmany.jpg)
![[Alleged Sinkhole 2026-08-12, 4637 Rustic Ridge Road, Foxborough subdivision, Lowndes County, GA]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-12--alleged-sinkhole-rustic-ridge-road/many.jpg)
![[Ashburn sewage spill 2026-08-02, Clean Alapaha River 2026-08-08, but dirty Town of Alapaha, Clean Withlacoochee River 2026-08-12]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2026-08-12--wq/many.jpg)