We got the big trash jam and discovered an even bigger one, on the Trashjam cleanup, Knights Ferry to Nankin, Withlacoochee River 2022-12-03.

Banners, trash, river

Thanks to the eight people who came, and to Russell Allen McBride for organizing. We also saw posts of the old Knight Bridge sticking up in the river, some interesting plants, two dead deer, and a Great Blue Heron. Plus a creek that wasn’t on the WWALS map of the Withlacoochee and Little River Wate Trail. And rocks. Many rocks.

Thanks to the two Valdosta city officials who did RSVP that they couldn’t. Don’t worry, we’ll be doing it again, with more advance notice. Pencil in Saturday, December 17th, for now.

This is mostly legacy trash from past years, now that the Sugar Creek Watergoat is catching much of it. But there’s more coming out of Three Mile Branch, and it’s still Valdosta’s responsibility even when it washes down the river, just like spilled sewage is Valdosta’s responsibility.

How do we know it’s Valdosta trash? Here’s some new evidence.

This was in the first big trash jam. Michael’s Deli has been closed since December 24, 2021, but it sat right on One Mile Branch, and its styrofoam cups washed down Sugar Creek into the Withlacoochee River.

Michael’s Deli

This was in the newly-discovered big trash jam that we didn’t have time to finish. Cook Out is in the parking lot on St. Augustine Road that famously washes trash into Hightower Creek, and on to Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River.

Cook Out, 13:34:34, 30.6894690, -83.4404930

There are more pictures below.

See also the facebook photoset by Russell Allen McBride.

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 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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Before

Visiting dog, 10:10:38, 30.7125170, -83.4553150

KB

Three Knight Bridge posts, 10:23:46, 30.7110377, -83.4547304

RD

Rocks downstream, 10:26:10, 30.7107972, -83.4542081

GS

Gator slide?, 10:32:10, 30.7079280, -83.4529910

ULR

Up the lazy river, 10:32:16, 30.7079276, -83.4529905

TJ1

Beginning of trash jam, 10:44:09, 30.7034038, -83.4528713

FICH

Flowering invasive Cleome houtteana, 10:45:08, 30.7031240, -83.4532144

MR

More rocks, 10:49:26, 30.7027068, -83.4537276

DF

Deadfall, 10:50:58, 30.7024240, -83.4540578

AMR

And more rocks, 10:52:34, 30.7019765, -83.4548942

ETJ

Bobby measuring trash distance, 11:18:10, 30.6968856, -83.4492408

TB

Quen found a trash barrel, 11:39:46, 30.6960555, -83.4486252

WH

Skull of wild hog

LCM

Corner marker, Langdale Company, parcel 0018 002, Spain Ferry Rd., 12:05:10, 30.6966987, -83.4488596

MD

Michael’s Deli

LE

Lion’s Ear, Leonotis nepetifolia, native to tropical Africa and southern India, 12:07:45, 30.6968564, -83.4489010

WV

Wrested vegetation, right bank, 12:24:53, 30.6949341, -83.4472332

WOR

Wood on rock, 12:27:21, 30.6949350, -83.4457282

RAR

Boat beyond rocks, 12:43:22, 30.6948206, -83.4425850

YMR

Yes, more rocks, 13:04:51, 30.6930903, -83.4423963

GRTJ

Cook Out, 13:34:34, 30.6894690, -83.4404930

GR

Garrett Road Landing, private, 14:21:52, 30.6863588, -83.4258639

FTJ

Russell getting trash from a tree limb, 14:34:48, 30.6873919, -83.4223058

DD

Antlers, 14:36:57, 30.6880220, -83.4235010

NAA

Not an animal, 14:37:07, 30.6880223, -83.4235007

FMPW

Floating Marsh Pennywort, 14:42:03, 30.6894808, -83.4219929

LRFL

Langdale Rocky Ford private landing, 15:02:50, 30.6800730, -83.4163300

GBHS

Godwin Bluff Hunt Shack, 15:09:13, 30.6783611, -83.4188550

RBPC

River Bend Plantation Creek, 15:16:56, 30.6754104, -83.4159989

LNRL

Langdale Nankin Road Launch, 15:37:11, 30.6759927, -83.4010410

DFB

Deadfall and brush, 15:41:52, 30.6774328, -83.3982378

CNS

Clyattville-Nankin Shoal, 30.6755780, -83.3946850

RFB

Rocky Ford Bridge, 30.6749220, -83.3944580

FDD

Banners with trash at Nankin Boat Ramp, 17:17:05, 30.6749086, -83.3940090

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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