Water trail sign fixing, Franklinville Road, Withlacoochee River 2023-06-25

Update 2023-06-25: Water quality sampling, Franklinville Road, Withlacoochee River 2023-06-25.

Somebody stole one of the water trail signs, and pushed the signpost off from vertical. So we fixed it.

Before, fixing, after: WLRWT signs, Franklinville Landing, Withlacoochee River 2023-06-25

This is at Franklinville Landing, on the Withlacoochee River at Franklinville Road, near the location of the old Lowndes County seat of Franklinville. It looked like somebody backed into the signpost, after somebody stole the bottom sign. That’s the one about this location, Franklinville Landing: what you can see upstream and downstream, how far, etc.

Back in 2019, when the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GA-DNR) provided WWALS a generous educational grant through the Recreational Trails Program (RTP), we ordered duplicates of some signs. Franklinville happened to be one of them, so the duplicate now replaces the stolen sign.

Before: Only one sign, tilted signpost

The top sign, about the entire Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WLRWT), was still there. It has a map of the whole thing, and text about safety, etiquette, etc.

Top sign: all the WLRWT; bottom sign: Franklinville Landing

Here’s a WWALS video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKwQ5xfKf-QyFXmInaKPeOxX9klsnxJAt

The river is above the bottom of Tyler Bridge.

The Skipper Bridge Gauge read 11.78 feet (123.08′ NAVD88) at 9:30 this morning. That’s more than a foot into Action Stage, which starts at 131.1′ NAVD88.

There are more pictures below.

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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David Vedas breaking up Quikcrete

Movie: Concrete preparation (27M)

Movie: Concrete around signpost (144M)

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

A healthy watershed with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable water.

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