Update 2025-06-27: Clean Withlacoochee River 2025-06-26. WWALS and Valdosta Utilities got good E. coli results on the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers. We don’t know about Sugar Creek; nobody tested that this week. No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida. There’s some chance […]
Update 2025-06-12: Sampling Sugar Creek 2025-06-12. Finally, a good E. coli result on Sugar Creek! Also clean results for the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers. No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida. It’s likely to rain this weekend and more likely every day […]
Update 2025-05-23: Filthy Langdale Park Withlacoochee River 2025-05-22. Sugar Creek was too high at Baytree Road and at the WaterGoat in WWALS E. coli tests. However, Valdosta Utilities and WWALS got clean results for the Withlacoochee River downstream. And WWALS got excellent results for the Alapaha River. No new sewage spills have been reported in […]
Etta Lee tried paddling the Alapaha River from Lakeland Boat Ramp to Naylor Boat Ramp, in Lanier County, Georgia, but things did not go as planned. Deadfall just above The Rocks, Alapaha River @ 79.91 feet NAVD88, –Etta Lee, Sunday, May 4, 2025 She wrote, “I crashed on the rocks. There is a limb.in the […]
Update 2025-05-09: Clean Withlacoochee River 2025-05-08. Sugar Creek was cleaner this week, but still at the one-time testing limit for E. coli at Gornto Road, and actually higher upstream at Baytree Road. Something is still not right near the old spill site, with no rain to affect it. The Withlacoochee River and the Alapaha River […]
Update 2025-04-30: Better retested Sugar Creek water quality 2025-04-25. Sugar Creek was filthy again this week. Something is not right near the old spill site. And there was no rain to cause this extremely high result from Valdosta Utilities. Two Tifton Creeks, the Withlacoochee River, and the Alapaha River were clean. No new sewage spills […]
Update 2025-04-01: Clean Little & Withlacoochee Rivers, Filthy Sugar Creek 2025-04-01. It’s a good weekend for boating, paddling, fishing, or swimming. Water quality results are good. No sewage spills have been reported in the past week. No rain is predicted until Sunday, probably in the afternoon. Avoid the water still too high at Fargo on […]
Come see the WWALS Booth at this festival near Alapaha, Georgia. WWALS Members can volunteer to help with this education opportunity. When: Gather 12 PM, festival 1 PM, end 5 PM, Saturday, April 12, 2025 Put In: Gaskins Forest Education Center, 3359 Moore Sawmill Rd., Alapaha, Georgia 31622 GPS: 31.345454, -83.178356 A Day in the […]
The Alapaha River is moving fast at Statenville Boat Ramp, just upstream of the GA 94 bridge and west across the river from Statenville, Georgia, on the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT). https://wwals.net/maps/arwt Statenville Boat Ramp, Alapaha River 2025-02-25, GA 94 Bridge, Sky Dog The Statenville Gauge read 9.61 feet (85.71 feet NAVD88), with 1580 […]
Update 2025-02-16: Filthy Sugar Creek, Clean Withlacoochee River at State Line 2025-02-14. Sugar Creek wasn’t as horrible this week as last, but it still tested too high in E. coli at Gornto Road and downstream for Wednesday. That was before an inch or two of rain Thursday, which most likely washed more contamination into Sugar […]
