Pictures: Twomile Branch Cleanup 2020-08-29 | WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

It was fun and productive: cleaning up Twomile Branch and Sugar Creek, plus a bit of the Withlacoochee River.

And we got a statewide award while we were there!

Bucket, need boat, Withlacoochee River, spider, bottle, handoff, Great Blue Heron, trash, Volunteer of the Year –GA AAS

The award was the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream Volunteer of the Year Award, for all the WWALS water quality testing volunteers, many of whom were at this cleanup. Thanks again to Georgia Power for the grant for testing equipment. WWALS is doing an AAS testing training this Saturday.

Join us for another cleanup at Sugar Creek on Saturday, October 10, 2020, or any of several other river and creek locations that same day, in conjunction with Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta. Or help us clean up this Saturday, September 12, 2020, at Berrien Beach Boat Ramp, northeast of Nashville, Georgia, on the Alapaha River.

Thanks to Nic Llinas and Sean of Current Problems for coming up from Gainesville, Florida, to bucket fish in Twomile Branch.

Nic Llinas tries the bucket

Brave Sean even waded into the creek.

Sean goes for the direct route

Volunteers at work

Suzy with a bottle in the horse pasture

Suzy hands off to Scotti

Suzy, Sean, Sara, Nic, Scotti

Sara Jay found an antique bottle that she gave to Scotti Jay for the collection for the fellow who said he would pay for them.

Antique bottle

According to landowner John Mark Eager, the horse pasture used to be the Valdosta city dump, so there’s plenty more buried in there. Thanks again to him for access to the creeks and the river through his pasture.