Madison County, Florida, Health Department issued a health alert to “residents and visitors near the Withlacoochee River in North Florida.” Alert, Data, River It’s not obvious why from the datapoint for yesterday at the state line on the FDEP website. FDEP only publishes E. coli results, so what they published for yesterday from Madison Health […]
Update 2021-07-28: Health Alert, Withlacoochee River, high Fecal coliform 2021-07-28. Unusual results: too high E. coli at US 41 and GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River, good downstream and on the Little and Alapaha Rivers. Unexpected because with the heavy rain in Brooks County, Georgia, problems downstream might have been expected. I would paddle on […]
Valdosta should not deannex 310 acres of Withlacoochee River floodplain around Cherry Creek. No good reason for deannexation has been given by the applicant, and there are substantial reasons to be concerned about potential uses of that land if deannexed. Instead, Valdosta and Lowndes County should purchase the entire 530.24 acre property down to the […]
Update 2021-07-21: Valdosta Elsa spills finally in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report 2021-07-20. Good news! By all the test results we have, the Withlacoochee River is clean again, in Georgia and Florida. Happy swimming, fishing, and boating! Chart, Withlacoochee River scenes, Swim Guide For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of Georgia and Florida water […]
Update 2021-07-16 Clean Withlacoochee River 2021-07-15. Update: 2021-07-12: No Valdosta City repair work at chronic sewage spill manhole, Wainwright Drive, Onemile Branch 2021-07-08. Tropical Storm Elsa washed E. coli into the Withlacoochee River, according to WWALS test results for Thursday, July 8, 2021. Some of it probably came from Valdosta’s more than half a dozen […]
Update 2021-07-06: Tropical Storm Elsa headed up Suwannee River Basin 2021-07-06 Valdosta has published its upstream results for Friday, which showed very bad water quality at US 41, GA 133, and US 84 on the Withlacoochee River. Chart, Map There’s been even more rain since then, and more is coming straight at the Suwannee River […]
Update 2021-07-02: Clean Rivers after Tuesday blip and before Thursday rains 2021-07-01. Sewage spills were reported last week, but not from Georgia: Florida State Prison Tuesday into the New River (of the Santa Fe), and Starke WWTF Saturday above the Santa Fe River. I must commend FDEP for sending out pollution notices on a Sunday, […]
Update 2021-06-28: Filthy GA-FL Line, Withlacoochee River 2021-06-26. Most Withlacoochee River contamination comes from cattle manure runoff, according to extensive testing. Yet there is the myth that every problem with the Withlacoochee River comes from Valdosta sewage. Actually, Valdosta has not had a spill that got into the river in more than a year and […]
Update 2021-06-27: Cattle and hogs: Withlacoochee River water quality status 2021-06-27. Going by WWALS water quality testing results for Thursday, it’s best to stay off the Withlacoochee River, and maybe the Alapaha River, for a few more days. Bad Knights Ferry and Willacoochee Landing Very unusual: too-high E. coli on the Alapaha River, at Willacoochee […]
Update 2021-06-25 Filthy at Knights Ferry, Withlacoochee River 2021-06-24. Unfortunately as expected, the recent rains have washed Fecal coliform and E. coli into the Withlacoochee River. The Madison County, Florida, Health Department has issued an advisory of possible bacterial contamination. I wouldn’t want to get that river water on me until better results are seen. […]
