Update 2024-11-08: Valdosta reports seven sewage spills, two ongoing 2024-11-08.

After many previously at the same location, this morning at 8:15 AM Richard A. Stalvey reported about 215 and 300 Knob Hill Road: “Heavy sewage spills at above addresses in Worthington Woods. I let the city know a few minutes ago.”

More Knob Hill Road sewage spills 2024-11-07, Three Mile Branch, Withlacoochee River, Valdosta, GA

This afternoon he sent this video of sewage spewing out of a manhole and running into a ditch which goes to Three Mile Branch in Langdale Park and on to the Withlacoochee River.

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Probably there are other spills due to the foot of rain on Valdosta last night.

Notice this spill is downstream on Three Mile Branch from where Country Club Road is (or was) closed at Three Mile Branch. I won’t be surprised if more spills happened near the other road closures.

So far nothing has turned up in the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report, but that can take days (or weeks, for slow reporters like Quitman and Ashburn).

There is nothing on Valdosta’s website under News.

Valdosta did post its Wednesday river testing results, which show 440 cfu/100 mL E. coli at GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River. That’s above the one-time test limit of 410, so in the danger zone.

Valdosta’s facebook page has posts about road closures and schools closed or open, but nothing about sewage spills.

I have left a message for Valdosta Utilities.

Stay tuned.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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