Update 2025-06-13: Clean Withlacoochee River and Sugar Creek 2025-06-12.

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”:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing/#signup

BTR

Baytree Road Bridge, Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:03:25, 30.8469958, -83.3141084

Upstream Sugar Creek @ Baytree Road, 2025:06:12 13:05:24, 30.8469884, -83.3139105

Downstream Sugar Creek @ Baytree Road, 2025:06:12 13:06:06, 30.8469870, -83.3139878

NSRR

Norfolk Southern Railroad @ Baytree Road, 2025:06:12 13:17:16, 30.8519141, -83.3147387

Movie: NSRR, 2025:06:12 13:17:28, (92M) 30.8519141, -83.3147387

Movie: Upper end of Valdosta Utilities Sugar Creek sewage bypass, 2025:06:12 13:19:37, (34M) 30.8519141, -83.3147387

Movie: Baytree Road at Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:23:21, (9.3M) 30.8470115, -83.3139158

GR

Gornto Road at Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:33:42, 30.8598232, -83.3172736

Movie: Gornto Road at Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:33:49, (36M) 30.8598232, -83.3172736

WG

WaterGoat at Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:41:30, 30.8624916, -83.3185588

Two Mile Branch entering Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:41:34, 30.8624916, -83.3185588

Movie: WaterGoat on Sugar Creek, 2025:06:12 13:41:45, (62M) 30.8624916, -83.3185588

LESB

Movie: Lower end of sewage bypass is up that way, 2025:06:12 13:46:48, (34M) 30.8572000, -83.3165000

SoP

Samples on Petrifilm, 2025:06:12 14:54:18

Movie: Samples on plates, 2025:06:12 14:54:32

Movie: Incubating the plates, 2025:06:12 14:56:35

TT

Movie: Water quality testing trainer Gretchen Quarterman, 2025:06:12 15:00:30 (123M)

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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