Update 2024-11-15: Rescheduled to 2024-12-23 2024-11-23 due to water too high and contaminated at previous date after the flash flood. Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup after Hurricane Helene, Troupville Boat Ramp 2024-11-23.

Update 2024-11-15: Changed to November 16, 2024, due to schedule conflicts.

Join us, walking between the Little River Confluence and GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River seeking deadfalls to chainsaw and trash to collect.

Hurricane Helene blew down many trees, so we should find plenty of deadfalls.

Nobody has to use a saw of any kind. You can help by photographing, pulling limbs out of the way, or just being there.

When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 2 PM, Saturday, November 2, 2024

Put In: Troupville Boat Ramp, 19664 Valdosta Hwy, Valdosta, GA 31602. I-75 exit 18, west on GA 133 (St. Augustine Road) away from the Valdosta Mall, at the traffic light for Val Tech Road, turn left down to the boat ramp, in Lowndes County.
 
The water level is well below our recommended low level for paddling, but if you do want to put in a kayak or canoe, you might try sliding it down the sand slope under the GA 133 bridge.

GPS: 30.851842, -83.346536

Walking Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup 2024-11-02, after Hurricane Helene, Troupville Boat Ramp

Take Out: Troupville Boat Ramp

Bring: the usual personal flotation device, boat, paddles, food, drinking water, warm clothes, and first aid kit.
Also trash pickers and trash bags: every WWALS outing is also a cleanup.
A chainsaw if you really know how to use it.
Handsaws are useful for small limbs and underwater.

Free: This outing is free because it is a cleanup.

We recommend you support the work of WWALS by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/900940708654272
https://www.meetup.com/withlacoochee-alapaha-suwannee-rivers-wwals-outings/events/304405837/

Duration: 4 hours

Paddle: 2.3 miles, who knows how long to walk it with chainsawing.

Shuttle: None.

Gauge: Valdosta: Recommended low water 116 feet (5.7′) and high water 123 feet (12.7′)

Today it’s 114.51 feet NAVD 88 and falling, with no rain predicted.

Left upstream Withlacoochee River, right upstream Little River to Troupville Boat Ramp -signs by Phil Hubbard, 2024-02-25 10:13:29, 30.8470777, -83.3476421

Host: TBD

Contact: John S. Quarterman

Troupville Boat Ramp WLRWT signs, 2022-11-13 17:10:03, 30.8513872, -83.3474346

Backup: in case of bad weather or high or low water is: Reschedule.

More: For more WWALS outings and events as they are posted, see the WWALS outings web page, https://wwals.net/outings/. WWALS members also get an upcoming list in the Tannin Times newsletter.

 -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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