Thanks to the dozen WWALS volunteers who helped at the WWALS booth and in the parade at the Hahira Honeybee Festival, September 30 and October 1, 2022.
![[Parade and Booth 2022-10-01]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-10-01--honeybee/many.jpg)
That’s Scotti Jay in the truck and Sara Jay on the raffle kayak in the parade. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Sponsors: WWALS Boomerang paddle race 2022-10-22
Thanks, sponsors, Packaging Corporation of America and Wisenbaker’s Garage.
![[Flyer]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-10-22--boomerang/WWALS-Boomerang-Flyer-2022-0001.jpg)
You or your organization can become a sponsor for the WWALS Boomerang paddle race on the idyllic blackwater Withlacoochee River, Saturday, October 22, 2022, from State Line Boat Ramp into Florida and back upstream into Georgia.
If you clean up before you paddle, you will get a Rivers Alive t-shirt. Continue reading
Directions: Sasser Landing and Jennings Bluff, Alapaha River 2022-10-02
Update 2022-10-31: Pictures: Alapaha, Dead Rivers, Sink 2022-10-02.
Expedition leader Dennis Price reported on access for this morning’s Sunday: Paddle Sasser Landing to Jennings Bluff, Hike to Dead River Sink, Alapaha River, 2022-10-02.
![[Signs to Alapaha River]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-10-02--sasser-jennings-dead-alapaha/many.jpg)
Getting to Sasser Landing to deposit boats is still simple. From Jennings, Continue reading
Good Water Quality, Withlacoochee, Little, Alapaha Rivers 2022-09-29
Update 2022-10-08: Clean rivers 2022-10-06.
Withlacoochee, Little, and Alapaha Rivers declared safe from Hurricane Ian. Maybe as clean as we’ve ever seen!
Happy boating, fishing, and swimming this weekend! Join us tomorrow on the Alapaha River plus hike to the Dead River Sink.
![[Chart, Rivers, Swim Guide]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-09-29--wq/many.jpg)
This is despite yet another small Valdosta sewage spill, this time last Friday on Lake Sheri, which drains into the Withlacoochee River just upstream from I-75.
Friday, September 23, 2022, was also the day WWALS tester Scotti Jay discovered a fish kill in One Mile Branch starting on the VSU campus.
Valdosta has not reported any test results for that day; I don’t know why. Valdosta results for Monday, September 26th are normal. Those are the most recent results Valdosta has published. Continue reading
Valdosta sewage spill into Lake Sheri, Withlacoochee River 2022-09-23
Update 2023-11-09: GA-EPD Consent Order on Valdosta for One Mile Branch fish kill and sewage spills 2023-09-15.
Valdosta had yet another small sewage spill, this time on Friday, September 23, 2022, into Lake Sheri, which drains into the Withlacoochee River just upstream from I-75.
![[Report and map: Valdosta Lake Sheri sewage spill 2022-09-23]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-09-29--wq/2022-09-23--spill-and-map-valdosta-lake-sheri-sewage-spill.jpg)
Report and map: Valdosta Lake Sheri sewage spill 2022-09-23
Most likely that spill was too small to affect the river, but those poor people who live on Lake Sheri, which already had three sewage spills upstream this summer.
The GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for Monday, September 26, 2022 shows that 1,250 raw sewage spill as Continue reading