Daily Archives: March 31, 2016

Withlacoochee River US 41 just before flood, 2016-03-31

Sunday there was parking under the bridge, now that’s under water. What parking? The intended put-in for this Sunday’s Withlacoochee Outing, is just downstream from here, so we’re rescheduling that one for Ray’s Millpond, 875 Rays Mill Pond Rd., Ray City, GA 31645, still 9AM March 20th 2016. Directions: From Valdosta, north on Bemiss Road (GA 125) to Ray City, right on Jones St. to boat ramp.

It’s 14.75 feet, just below 15 foot flood at the Continue reading

FERC makes Hamilton BOCC filing illegible

Does FERC actually look at what counties and other people send it?

Figure 2: LiDAR Map, Suwannee River --Dennis Price to FERC (5 of 8) FERC made the figures illegible in its posting of Dennis Price’s geology report that Hamilton BOCC appended when it forwarded to FERC its site visit request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

This reminds me of when FERC lost half of Dougherty County’s Sabal Trail resolution and just happened to lose page 3 of Bill Kendall’s letter, the page about lack of need, false pretense, and duress. Does FERC actually care what anybody thinks, other than the industries it “regulates” while they pay all its costs?

FERC Filing 28 March 2016, Accession Number 20160328-0091, “Correspondence from Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton, FL to U.S. Army Corp of Engineers re the Environmental Geology report under CP15-17.” Continue reading