Ashburn still needs to get a grip on its sewage spills. More timely reporting would also be good. One of them showed up in the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report a month late, and the other a week after the spill.

I missed seeing these Ashburn spills when they first appeared, due to a glitch in network access for the WWALS software that retrieves and interprets these reports daily.

Ashburn sewage spills, October and November 2024

It’s not clear why it says “Wet weather” for October 14, since the only rain records I can find for Ashburn, Georgia, say it was clear and sunny that day and the day before. There was a fatal car wreck on I-75 in Ashburn on October 14, but the news report says nothing about wet weather.

Of course, Ashburn could have had its own flash flood event.

The November 7 Ashburn spill coincides with the Valdosta flash flood, and some of that rain did extend farther north.

GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report 2024-11-13

It’s actually Rockhouse Road (not Rockdale). And, as you can see on this map, that manhole is only slightly upstream on Hat Creek from the wastewater treatment plant.

Map: Ashburn Airport WTP and Sylvia Drive in the WWALS map of the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT)

I was reminded of these Ashburn spills as the most recent one rolled off the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report today, December 9, 2024, after a month on there.

GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report 2024-12-09

Also today, Valdosta’s more numerous and bigger flash flood sewage spills rolled off.

Maybe soon Valdosta Utilities will discover what is still contaminating Sugar Creek.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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