Join us for a river cleanup including many deadfalls (we will have chainsaws), some interesting creeks, an old steel bridge, some rapids, and Turket Creek Waterfall.

We may need to paddle back up, depending on how many deadfalls and how far we get through them.

And if the water remains really low, be sure to have a rope on the front of your boat for dragging it across sandbars and shoals.

When: Gather 12 PM, launch 1 PM, end 5 PM, Saturday, May 30, 2026

Put In: GA 135 Alapahoochee Landing. It’s a steep sandy bank underneath the GA 135 Bridge. Pull off the north side of road on the left (west) bank of the Alapahoochee River. It’s 3/4 mile upstream of the GA-FL line and west of Pear Tree Lane, between Jennings and Statenville, in Echols County, Georgia.

GPS: 30.62845, -83.0893

Alapahoochee River Cleanup, Deadfalls and Rapids 2026-05-30, Devil Shoal, Turket Creek WaterFall

Take Out: Sasser Landing

Boats: If there’s enough water, we will be using the WWALS jon boat with the 9.9hp outboard and the 24-inch Husqvarna Rancher chainsaw paid for by a grant from Wild Green Future, plus other saws, electric and gas.
If you have a jon boat with outboard and can bring it, please do.
If there’s not enough water, we will be using a WWALS canoe and kayaks.
Kayaks and canoes are welcome to paddle along.

Bring: the usual personal flotation device, boat, paddles, food, drinking water, warm clothes, and first aid kit.
Also trash pickers and trash bags: every WWALS outing is also a cleanup.
Please follow Leave No Trace principles by packing out all trash, avoiding damage to vegetation, and respecting wildlife.
If you have a chainsaw and know how to use it, bring it along.
Or a sawzall or handsaw, which is especially good for small underwater limbs.
But you do not have to saw: you can pick up trash, or photograph, or just paddle along.
Please follow Leave No Trace principles by packing out all trash, avoiding damage to vegetation, and respecting wildlife.

Safety: Be on time. If you miss the safety briefing, you cannot paddle with us.
Each person in a boat, no matter how young or old, must wear a PFD.

Free: This outing is free to everyone, because it is a cleanup!

We recommend you support the work of WWALS by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/4413079005646574/

meetup

The first deadfall, 2024:07:21 09:58:45, –jsq for WWALS 30.6280793, -83.0882720

Duration: 5 hours

Paddle: 2.83 miles, 4 hours.

Shuttle: 9 miles round trip, 20 minutes total.
This outing includes the traditional WWALS shuttle. Everybody takes their boats to the put-in, most people drive to the take-out, and the drivers pile into one or two vehicles and go back to the put-in.

Host: Bird Chamberlain

Contact: Bird Chamberlain

Shawn saws through, 2024:07:21 10:20:09, –Andrea Sante for WWALS 30.6278340, -83.0884739

Backup: in case of bad weather or high or low water is: Cancel

Gauge: Jennings, on the bridge a few hundred feet downstream from Sasser Landing.

On May 14, 2026, it reads 61.1 feet NAVD88.

It was 62.84 feet NAVD88 at 11:15 AM, July 21, 2024, the last time we tried this outing.

https://wwals.net/?p=65415

That was before Hurricane Helene, so the deadfalls are probably worse.

More: For more WWALS outings and events as they are posted, see the WWALS outings web page, https://wwals.net/outings/. WWALS members also get an upcoming list in the Tannin Times newsletter.

 -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

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