
Daily Archives: April 28, 2017
Coal Plant Public Hearing in Albany, GA 2017-05-04
Our neighbor Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers requests people to come to Albany, GA for a coal ash public hearing. If you can’t go, please send in comments.
When: 7PM, Thursday, May 4, 2017
Where:
Albany Technical College
Kirkland Conference Center
1704 S. Slappey Blvd.
Albany, GA 31701
What:
Public Hearing about draft
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit
for Georgia Power Company’s Plant Mitchell.
Why: It’s about coal ash.
Plant Mitchell (Georgia Power Co.) near Albany, GA 7/14/94. Photo courtesy of USGS. T.W. Hale, in
Pamela P. Holliday, Sherpa Guides, unknown date,
The Albany Levee: Trying to Tame the Flint.
Georgia Power proposed Continue reading
Sandhills and wildlife at Alapaha WMA
Matt Elliott, GA-DNR Wildlife Resources Division blog, 25 April 2017, Alapaha River WMA: Storied Site for Sandhills, Wildlife,
Alapaha River Wildlife Management Area had achieved near-legendary status in some circles well before the 6,869 acres were opened as a WMA on Sept. 30, 2016. The site has been variously known as the Lentile Tract, the Snake Sanctuary, Dan Speake’s indigo snake study site (by herpetologists familiar with the work of the Auburn University wildlife professor emeritus) and the Pasture (by local hunters).
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UGA graduate student Erin Cork with an eastern indigo (John Jensen/DNR)Providing the border along Irwin and Tift counties between Tifton and Ocilla, the Alapaha River at this point is Continue reading