Daily Archives: August 6, 2025

WTXL on Wainwright Drive One Mile Branch sewage spill 2025-08-05

Update 2025-08-08: Clean Alapaha River 2025-08-03, Dirty Creeks 2025-08-06, Withlacoochee River Clean downstream 2025-08-07.

I’ve added some information to Malia’s report, so you’ll know what she was looking at.

Malia Thomas, WTXL, 2025-08-05, Valdosta sewage spill renews concern after second overflow hits creek in under a month: Another sewage spill near Sugar Creek sparks urgency as Valdosta faces decades-old infrastructure strain

VALDOSTA, GA. (WTXL) — Another sewer spill in Valdosta—this time small, but still stirring concern.

[Wainwright Drive sewage spill on WTXL TV 2025-08-05, into One Mile Branch, at site of many previous spills]
Wainwright Drive sewage spill on WTXL TV 2025-08-05, into One Mile Branch, at site of many previous spills

  • Monday’s spill released up to 1,000 gallons into Sugar Creek [actually, into One Mile Branch, which flows to Sugar Creek, then the Withlacoochee River to the Suwannee -jsq], which connects to the Suwannee River system.
  • Since April 2024, over 409,000 gallons of raw sewage have spilled from the same Wainwright Dr. location.
  • Watch the video to hear from neighbors and the city’s plan of action.
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Withdraw both Interim Final Rules about NEPA –many to USACE 2025-08-04

The Great God Efficiency is no excuse to abolish public input and harm public health, safety, and wildlife habitats.

This objection letter may or may not have much effect, but we can be sure that not objecting would grease the railroad these rules changes are riding on.

On behalf of our millions of members and supporters nationwide, the 135 undersigned organizations write in strong opposition to the Army Corps of Engineers’ Interim Final Rules Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act for its civil works (COE-2025-007) and regulatory (COE-2025-006) programs. These rules will silence public input, erode public health and safety, and harm vital and cherished wildlife habitats across the country.

These Interim Final Rules bear no relation to improving efficiencies in project delivery. To the contrary, they will lead to inefficient, inconsistent, and inadequate NEPA reviews that will further undermine agency decision-making and the public’s trust in project decisions. The Interim Final Rules functionally repeal essential NEPA protections, including eliminating the most basic safeguards for meaningful public input. They make a mockery of the Corps’ stated purpose of aligning the NEPA regulations with current law.1 And they fail to provide any guidance at all on multiple, critical NEPA requirements.

You can read the reasons in the PDF. Images of each page are below.

[Withdraw both Interim Final Rules about NEPA --many to USACE, August 4, 2025]
Withdraw both Interim Final Rules about NEPA –many to USACE, August 4, 2025

Conclusion

For at least the reasons highlighted above, our organizations urge the Corps to withdraw both Interim Final Rules, and in their place issue regulations that properly implement the National Environmental Policy Act.

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WWALS River Revue, Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest on The Spotlight Show, Talk92.1 FM 2025-08-07

Join us on The Spotlight Show on talk921.com at 6 PM, Thursday, August 7, 2025.

Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman and “Diamond” Jim Halter will talk about the WWALS River Revue with the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest, September 6, 2025, plus chainsaw cleanups, the Okefenokee Swamp, Springs and Rivers, and water quality testing.

[Spotlight Radio 2025-08-07: WWALS River Revue and Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest]
Spotlight Radio 2025-08-07: WWALS River Revue and Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/760143599756568/

For more WWALS outings and events, see:
https://wwals.net/outings

 -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/