Update 2024-09-06: Clean Withlacoochee River, Dirty Franks Creek 2024-09-04.

Not so good below the Town of Alapaha, Georgia, wastewater settling ponds Friday.

Bad Alapaha WPCP Outflow, Alapaha River 2024-08-30 Yet clean downstream above US 82 & Sheboggy Boat Ramp

Heather Brasell tested on what’s in the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT) map as Alapaha Elementary School Stream and got 667 CFU/100 mL of E. coli, which is above the 410 one-time test limit. She tested on the power line right of way you can see just downstream (northeast) of the Alapaha WPCP Outfall.

Alapaha Settling Pond Stream
in the WWALS map of the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT).

Yet downstream on the Alapaha River, just above US 82 and Sheboggy Boat Ramp, she got zero (0).

How is this possible? There’s another little creek that joins that creek, and there is Much more water in the river.

Topo Map: Alapaha WWTP 2021-03-23
PDF
in Alapaha, GA, NPDES permits.

Downstream Thursday at Lakeland Boat Ramp and Naylor Park Beach, Kimberly Godden Tanner’s results also showed no effects from this Alapaha contamination.
https://wwals.net/?p=65799

FYI, Alapaha Elementary School Stream also has the more colorful names Alapaha Settling Pond Stream or Crap Creek.

For much more about the WWALS volunteer water quality testing program, see: https://wwals.net/issues/testing

 -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!
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Alapaha Settling Pond Stream, Alapaha River, 2024-08-30

Plates, Alapaha Settling Pond Stream, Alapaha River, 2024-08-30

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Alapaha River above US 82 and Sheboggy Boat Ramp 2024-08-30

Plates, Alapaha River above US 82 and Sheboggy Boat Ramp 2024-08-30

 -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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