Update 2025-08-27: Filthy Sugar Creek, OK One Mile Branch, Clean Withlacoochee River 2025-08-26.

We received this update from Valdosta this morning at 11:19 AM:

Withlacoochee WPCP Overflow Stopped as of August 27

Update as of August 27, 2025, 9:30 a.m. The overflow at the Withlacoochee WPCP has stopped. It is estimated that approximately 1,500,000 gallons of stormwater diluted wastewater to the wetland adjacent to the plant. All required agencies have been notified.

Stopped: Overflow from Valdosta Withlacoochee Wastewater Treament Plant, Monday, August 27, 2025

That’s optimistic saying that a 1.5 million gallon spill is contained in the adjacent wetlands.

I don’t see any water quality test results posted on Valdosta’s website yet, even though after each of the two weekend major spills Valdosta is required by their wastewater permit to test daily upstream and down each day for a week, then weekly for four weeks.

Maybe we’ll see some results soon from Madison Health downstream in Florida.

Meanwhile, neither of these Valdosta major spills have yet appeared in the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report.
https://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills/

Update 2025-08-27: Well, they were in there Monday, but still without total gallons. See: Filthy Sugar Creek, OK One Mile Branch, Clean Withlacoochee River 2025-08-26.

The rest of today’s Valdosta PR text is the same as in the city’s August 24 press release, for which see the previous post.
https://wwals.net/?p=68257

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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