Update 2025-02-09: Rerouted to Langdale Park Downstream Withlacoochee Chainsaw Cleanup 2025-02-09.

Join us between the Little River Confluence and GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River seeking deadfalls to chainsaw and trash to collect.

Thanks to Phil Hubbard for leading this one.

When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 2 PM, Sunday, February 9, 2025

Put In: Troupville Boat Ramp, 19664 Valdosta Hwy, Valdosta, GA 31602. I-75 exit 18, west on GA 133 (St. Augustine Road) away from the Valdosta Mall, at the traffic light for Val Tech Road, turn left down to the boat ramp, in Lowndes County.

Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup 2025-02-09, upstream from Troupville, Thanks Phil Hubbard

Take Out: Troupville Boat Ramp

Boats: 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.
Kayaks and canoes are welcome to paddle along.
You can also walk along the Withlacoochee River right bank in the park.

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.
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.

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/586969744244192
https://www.meetup.com/withlacoochee-alapaha-suwannee-rivers-wwals-outings/events/305924294/

Duration: 4 hours

Paddle: 2.3 miles, 3.5 hours.

Shuttle: none, none.

Gauge: Valdosta

Gauge: Valdosta at US 41 (North Valdosta Road), USGS 02317755.
Highest safe 12.7 feet, 123′ NAVD. Lowest boatable 5.7 feet, 116′ NAVD.

Contact: John S. Quarterman

Backup: in case of bad weather or high or low water is: Reschedule. In case of contamination from Sugar Creek, start at Langdale Park and go downstream.

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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