Just to see if Russell Allen McBride had changed his mind since December, I asked him again as he waded in to clean out the Sugar Creek WaterGoat: if Valdosta finally buys more trash traps like they’ve been promising for many months, will he clean them out?

Answer: not unless the city makes that his full time job.

Russell waist-deep in the trash

He also mentioned that the recent big rain washed some trash over the current WaterGoat, so Valdosta needs a better model for this location, which is on Sugar Creek just upstream from the Withlacoochee River.

See the video on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Wwalswatershed/videos/941601463886544

Or on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/y5Zi8es3nLI

Video by John S. Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc., 2023-01-26

For much more about the trash situation, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/trash

Before

Russell getting ready

Russell and relatives at the trash cans

Movie: Russell Allen McBride cleaning out the Sugar Creek WaterGoat (185M)

After

I’m pretty sure Bobby McKenzie isn’t going to commit to cleaning out more trash traps, either, but I can also get him on video about that.

Bobby McKenzie with kayak and Saige –Russell Allen McBride

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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