A nice cloudy day on the iconic Suwannee River, with a ghost bridge. Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman on the November 22nd 2015 WWALS Outing from Florida 6 to Cone Bridge Road.
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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Draft TMDL for Suwannee River Basin
Downstream from Valdosta and Tifton on the Withlacoochee River, and downstream from Fitzgerald on the Willacoochee River: room for improvement in fecal coliform,
said the Georgia Environmental Protection Division in a draft report issued Friday.
The comment deadline is January 20th, 2016.
On a quick read, the various wastewater treatment plants do not seem to be the main source of the contamination.
Other likely culprits include leaking septic tanks, concentrated livestock operations, and landfills and land application sites, both closed and operating.
Also notice the proposed Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline would cross most if not all of these TMDL locations in Lowndes County.
Would drilling under the Withlacoochee River and open cuts in these areas help the TMDL problem?
Here’s the NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF PROPOSED TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOADS FOR WATERS AND POLLUTANTS OF CONCERN IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA November 20, 2015, which includes: Continue reading
Bellville Bridge, Withlacoochee River, Madison to Hamilton County, Florida, put in for WWALS outing 2015-10-24
We saw the ruins in October; here’s a picture when it was still standing.
Picture from
Hamilton County, by
Marsanne Petty,
on
page 13 (Richard McCulley); found by Chris Mericle.
The caption reads: Continue reading
Waterfall
Pilings of Cone Bridge
Suwannee River
Lunch banner
Suwannee River
Lunch stop panorama
Suwannee River
Starting out
Suwannee River, FL 6
Suwannee River @ FL 6
Not one hand was raised for Sabal Trail before Suwannee BOCC voted against it –Suwannee Democrat
Sabal Trail’s excuse was they didn’t know in advance, even though their attorneys sent a letter beforehand, and they didn’t show up in Albany, GA, either, with weeks of notice. Spectra Energy’s Andrea Grover told the newspaper some other things that also don’t match the public record.
Carl McKinney, Suwannee Democrat, 20 November 2015,
Dozens gather in Live Oak to oppose gas pipeline, compress station,
Not one hand raised among the dozens in the room when a county commissioner asked who came to support the proposed Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline which would run through three states and dissect Suwannee County if approved.
Tuesday evening, every parking space at the county’s judicial annex building was full as O’Brien residents, people from Live Oak and activists and experts from as far as New Orleans gathered at the county commission meeting to voice their opposition to the project.
The commission was voting on Continue reading