This afternoon I sampled water at four Sugar Creek locations: Baytree Road, the Norfolk Southern RailRoad, Gornto Road, and the WaterGoat.

Here’s a WWALS video:
https://youtu.be/rWVpBjeaUu4

Then I pipetted sample water onto PetriFilms, and put those in an incubator.

After 24 hours at 95F, I’ll count the blue bacteria colonies with bubbles, and compute the colony forming units (cfu)/100 mL of E. coli.

Sampling Sugar Creek, Baytree, Railroad, Gornto, WaterGoat, Upstream from Withlacoochee River, June 12, 2025

Along with results from other WWALS testers and from Valdosta Utilities (who presumably sampled the Withlacoochee River Wednesday at GA 133 and US 84), WWALS will publish the usual weekly water quality report Friday afternoon or evening.

Plus bonus snippet with the WWALS water quality testing trainer, Gretchen Quarterman.

If you want to get trained to be a water quality tester, go to wwals.net, and in the menu select issues, then testing. Then pick “get trained”:
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