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Petition GA Gov. Deal to oppose Sabal Trail pipeline

Please sign this petition to Please Ban The Sabal Trail Fracked Gas Pipeline.

Congratulations to Push Back the Pipeline for convincing GA Gov. Deal and Lt. Gov. Cagle to oppose Kinder Morgan’s Palmetto Project and the Georgia Dept. of Transportation to deny KMI a permit.

Now it’s time for the same for the Sabal Trail Pipeline. The permitting process is different, but opposition from the state of Georgia could stop this invader, too.

While Sabal Trail has moved off our Withlacoochee River in Florida, it still wants to cross the Withlacoochee in Georgia at the Continue reading →

WWALS Goals for 2015

Boating on our rivers and water trails for them, issues and education: you can help with the fun and work of WWALS! Here’s much of what can be done laid out in a list of a dozen WWALS Goals for 2015. The board has at least one opening right now, and the committees always could use more members. You can apply through the online form.

See also the monthly newsletter, the news about WWALS, and of course the website with blog, facebook the page and group, and WWALS on twitter, Youtube, and the membership google group. You can become a member or corporate sponsor of WWALS online right now.

The WWALS Executive Committee 11 March 2015 recommended Continue reading →

Brochures for Alapaha River Water Trail

Hot off the presses, a card, brochure, and map all in one for the Alapaha River Water Trail!

If you want some copies, send email to wwalswatershed at gmail.com and we’ll arrange to get them to you. Here’s WWALS board member Chris Mericle displaying the new brochure next to the WWALS banner: Continue reading →

For development, or not needed? US 84 widening from Homerville to Waycross

This paragraph sums it up:

300x388 Wetlands 29 and 31, in RE: SAS-2014-00862, Proposed U.S. Highway 84 Widening, by Gilbert B. Rogers, for WWALS.net, 28 May 2015 The project’s stated purpose in the EA is “economic development,” as part of the Governor’s Road Improvement Program created in the 1980s. See EA at 4. The NEPA regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) require agencies to examine the indirect impacts of projects — those growth-inducing impacts caused by a project, such as changes in land use and development patterns. 40 C.F.R. § 1508.8(b). Yet over and over, when purporting to examine the project’s potential for indirect impacts on various natural resources, the EA repeats, “The proposed project is not expected to precipitate substantial development along the corridor.”

Other questions include, why not use a narrower median? Why not leave trees on the median?

Below is the full text of the letter Continue reading →

Training Session about Non-Profit Boards 2015-06-05

This coming Friday, June 5th, eight area chambers of commerce, the Southeastern Credit Union, and the Valdosta Daily Times (VDT) are sponsoring a workshop on nonprofit boards, 8:30 AM to noon, at the Country Inn & Suites, 1308 St Augustine Rd, Valdosta, GA 31601.

VDT, 28 May 2015, Chambers host training for nonprofits, Continue reading →

Douglas meeting of Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council 2015-06-15

WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel will be speaking at this meeting (PDF). 300x194 Douglas and Coffee County, Satilla and Willacoochee Rivers, in Douglas meeting of Water Council, by Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council, for WWALS.net, 15 June 2015

Douglas is in the Satilla River watershed, but WWALS’ Willacoochee River forms the border between Coffee County and Berrien County.

NOTICE:

SUWANNEE-SATILLA
REGIONAL WATER PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING

Announcement Date: May 28, 2015

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:
The Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council is holding its next meeting
at the following date, time, and location: Continue reading →