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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony 2016-07-12
Here’s the invitation card for the Valdosta WWTP ribbon cutting Tuesday morning. Congratulations, Valdosta!
VALDOSTA
A City Without LimitsThe City of Valdosta, Georgia
Requests the Honor of your Presence
at the
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
for the
Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant Continue reading
Withlacoochee River, US 41 N
With reference Yellow Dog
Debra Johnson Randall wonders what benefit Sabal Trail would get from a grant to a Suwannee County library
Unlisted Sabal Trail pipe yard n. of Lake City? WWALS to USACE 2016-07-05
Who other than Sabal Trail needs a yard full of 36-inch pipe?
A pipe yard apparently built on top of jurisdictional wetlands,
so WWALS has informed the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD)
and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
Here is PDF and below is text and images of the letter WWALS sent to the Corps today.
July 5, 2016
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May 2016 Tannin Times: WWALS member newsletter
WWALS members have already received the June Tannin Times. A month or so later, we publish the WWALS newsletters online, such as this one from May 2016.
Follow
this link for PDF and below are images of the May 2016 Tannin Times.
Click on any small image to get a bigger image.
It’s all about the BIG Little River Paddle Race,
WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel went to A Day in the Woods,
and we boated in outings at Ray’s Mill Pond
and on the Alapaha River with Great Egrets and canopied by trees in full spring leaf.
In advocacy, WWALS applauded Suwannee County, FL Continue reading
Sabal Trail library funding on Suwannee County Agenda 2016-07-05
Sabal Trail offers $60,000 to a library in Suwannee County, the only county through which every path ever proposed by Sabal Trail would pass.
The same Florida county where
another hydrogeology report says Sabal Trail’s 36-inch fracked methane pipeline drilling would risk springs, caverns,
the Suwannee River, and everyone’s drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer.
If you think $60,000 or $60 million or $3 billion is not enough for that hazard to our water and property rights, you can come and say so.
When: 6PM Tuesday July 5th 2016
where: Judicial Annex
218 Parshley St. SW
Live Oak, FL 32064
Event: facebook
What: On the agenda for the Suwannee Board of County Commissioners: Continue reading
Rivers-Alive Cleanup at Berrien Beach Launch, Alapaha River 2016-09-10
No boat needed! This Rivers-Alive Cleanup is on land,
at GA 168, the launch for Berrien Beach on the Alapaha River.
Bring gloves. Trash bags will be supplied.
When: 4PM Saturday September 10th 2016
Where: Berrien Beach Launch, at GA 168, 31.159076, -83.045554
Directions: 12.9 miles east of Nashville, GA on GA 168; launch access road is on left (north) side of highway west of the river.
Duration: about 1.5 hours.
Responsible party: Bret Wagenhorst
This outing is Free! But we encourage you to join WWALS today Continue reading
New hydrology report exposes Sabal Trail pipeline risk to Floridan Aquifer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jasper, Florida, July 1st 2016 — Another independent
professional geologist reveals more omissions and discrepancies in pipeline company reports and faults in federal oversight of the Sabal Trail pipeline:
groundflow actually goes the other way,
drilling under a river will change water
flow in the Floridan Aquifer, and there is very high risk of
sinkhole collapse. An indigenous Floridian commissioned this scientific report to protect his mother, the living earth.
This geological report provides compelling additional reasons for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
to open a new process to evaluate this and other new information.
Bobby C. Billie, one of the Clan Leaders and Spiritual Leader, Council of the Original Miccosukee Simanolee Nation Aboriginal Peoples, asked professional geologist and hydrologist Peter Schreuder, P.G. to conduct investigations at the proposed Sabal Trail crossing under the Suwannee River from Hamilton County and under U.S. 90 in close proximity to the Falmouth Cave System in Suwannee County.
This Schreuder report concludes about the Floridan Aquifer System (FAS): Continue reading
Hydrogeologic Issues of Concern, HDD under Suwannee River –Peter J. Schreuder 2016-06-23
See press release, New hydrology report exposes Sabal Trail pipeline risk to Floridan Aquifer, and this report is also available in PDF.
Schreuder, Inc. Water-Resources & Environmental Consultants
Directional Horizontal Drilling (HDD) under the
Suwannee River
At Suwannee River State ParkHydrogeologic Issues of Concern
In any review of potential environmental consequences related to the use of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD), both the geotechnical and scientific communities can be expected to raise serious concerns when such drilling is done around karst areas, and in regions which over lie the Floridan Aquifer System (FAS), which includes the Upper Floridan Aquifer, and the karstic geologic subsurface features at the location proposed in Continue reading