Update 2024-12-06:
Clean Alapaha and Withlacoochee Rivers: Sugar Creek still nasty 2024-12-05.
Update 2024-12-05:
Valdosta has published their results for Tuesday 2024-12-03.
Lower than ours at St. Augustine Road (380), but way higher at Gornto Road: 12,700, more than a dozen times the 1,000 alert limit.
There has been no rain.
Is there some other explanation than an intermittent sewage leak between St. Augustine Road and Gornto? -jsq
https://www.valdostacity.com/utilities/river-stream-water-quality-data/nov-2024-overflow-testing-results
Down at the WaterGoat was the worst place for E. coli on Sugar Creek on Monday: more than three times the alert limit at 3,200 cfu/100 mL.
It is not all coming from Two Mile Branch: we also got bad results upstream.
Still very bad 2024-12-02, Sugar Creek, Withlacoochee River, Where is the sewage spill or spills?
Some of the colonies are faint, but they’re blue with bubbles, which is what we count:
(43+28+25) * 100 / 3 = 3,200 cfu/100mL, which is more than three times the 1,000 alert limit.
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