More about that in a previous post.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
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Sabal Trail pipe and tires standing in water, Cool Springs Road, Baconton, GA 2017-01-25
And they followed her down the road, as Sabal Trail’s hardhats usually do
when they see anybody watching their trail of destruction.
This was Wednesday 25 January 2017 on Cool Springs Road, Baconton, GA,
31.306085, -84.008770.
Pictures and video by Sherry Layton Gatewood: they didn’t scare her off, and they haven’t scared off the many other people throughout Florida, Georgia, and Alabama who are watching them like hawks, looking for violations.
Kind of hard to get to your fields to do agriculture with this in the way.
WWALS receives grant for water conservation outreach to farmers and community
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WWALS receives grant for water conservation outreach to farmers and community (PDF)
Hahira, Georgia; December 27, 2016 — Local water conservation
group WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) has received a grant of
$6,000 from the Georgia Water Coalition (GWC) to help groups in
towns, counties, and countryside to draw the big picture of
watershed conservation, as well as to help organize at least one
grant from a different source to assist at least one farmer in
erosion control.
The award contract of November 11, 2016, says Continue reading
Sabal Trail Hamilton County Suwannee River HDD
The pipe to go under the Suwannee RIver is laid out, welded, and has pressure test fittings at the Hamilton County side of the Suwannee River,
but the drill site itself has nothing but a generator.
So it looks like they’re drilling under from the Suwannee County side
Here are some pictures and videos taken in Hamilton County near CR 141.
Sabal Trail didn’t like that.
This is the site at 30.410381, -83.165874 that you see in the foreground in an aerial picture in a previous post.
Here’s a playlist of WWALS videos, and there are more pictures below. Continue reading
Less withdrawals, more water retention for North Florida Regional Water Supply Plan: WWALS PR 2016-12-06
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jasper, Florida, November 6th 2016 — Better modeling and measurement of more water reuse and retention with fewer water withdrawals in both north Florida and south Georgia, WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) recommended yesterday in comments (PDF) on the North Florida Regional Water Supply Plan (NFRWSP). WWALS also opposed the Falling Creek Aquifer Storage project and suggested a replacement, and recommended including threats to the FLoridan Aquifer and the Suwannee, Withlacoochee, and Alapaha Rivers such as pipelines and fracking.
WWALS applauded water supply projects involving reuse or stormwater,
especially those in Jacksonvile and Gainesville, two of the sources of the
general problem of falling water levels in the Floridan Aquifer.
WWALS also applauded the plan to set minimum flow levels on the upper Suwannee River and WWALS expects to be involved with that.
WWALS recommended expanding the original study area, which stopped at the Suwannee River on the west and the Georgia-Florida state line on the north. WWALS president John S. Quarterman explained,
“Our rivers don’t stop because there’s a state line on a map, and there are three second-magnitude springs on the Withlacoochee River in Georgia south of Valdosta, one of them with a more than 4,000-foot cave system, that aren’t taken into account in this draft plan.”
Quarterman elaborated on a much larger concern: Continue reading
Brooks County Commission Resolution to Support WLRWT 2016-11-07
Unanimously, they passed
a resolution to support the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail: the Brooks County Commission at their regular meeting of Monday November 7th 2016 (PDF).
Thanks to the Commissioners, especially Chairman Myra Exum and Vice-Chairman Joe Wingate, for their warm welcome to WWALS.
Thanks to Commissioners and staff, especially County Administrator Justin DeVane,
for some very useful suggestions, such as numbering river landings as well as naming them,
in the same way that county roads have both names and numbers to make it easier
for emergency services.
The picture is of county agent Stephanie Hollifield reminding the Commissioners that Brooks County farmer Randy Dowdy set a world record for soybean yield of Continue reading
WWALS at Suwannee River Roots Revival 2016-10-15
Music and advocacy on the banks of the iconic Suwannee River!
WWALS outings, rivers, Valdosta wastewater, agricultural runoff, and
the issue
half the people wanted
to talk about was the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline: nobody wants it.
Thanks to Leeann Drabenstott Culbreath for the great picture of WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman and Ambassador Dave Hetzel, who engages everybody who walks past. Thanks to WWALS member Bret Huntley for camping overnight last night and setting up this morning. Gretchen took the other pictures of Dave and Bret. WWALS president John S. Quarterman took the one of the Shook Twins on the Amphitheater Stage in Spirit of Suwannee Music Park at Suwannee River Roots Revival on the banks of the Suwannee River.
Come on down to these upcoming WWALS events and outings: Continue reading
WWALS Outings, Rivers, and Pipeline on Chris Beckham drive-time radio WVGA 105.9 FM 8:00 7:30 AM 2016-09-02
8AM Friday morning WWALS will be on Chris Beckham’s drive-time radio show.
WWALS president John S. Quarterman will be talking about
Saturday morning’s Suwannee River paddle outing
and other outings upcoming on the Alapaha and Withlacoochee Rivers,
along with other developments on the
Alapaha River Water Trail and the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail,
along with
many other things WWALS does.
Plus what you can do about
the FERC rubberstamp of the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline
drilling under the Withlacoochee and Suwannee Rivers.
When: 8:00 7:30AM Friday September 2nd 2016
Where: Continue reading
What WWALS Does: watershed advocacy from outings and water trails to wastewater and pipelines
Water trails, wastewater, corporate agriculture, solar power, fracking, and pipelines: WWALS works with many issues in many ways,
as part of our advocacy for conservation and stewardship through education, awareness, environmental monitoring and activities such as our monthly paddle outings.
Here’s an introduction to WWALS for the many new members and even more people following WWALS on facebook and twitter.
WWALS Watershed Coalition, or WWALS for short, is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation about everything related to water in the watersheds Continue reading
Bill Gates considered toxic to springs –Dan Hilliard
It’s not the Gates Foujndation: it’s his private investment arm. And Lakeland Sands is not the only LLC shell corp he’s using to buy up land in Suwannee, Hamilton, and Madison Counties, FL
and Lowndes and Echols Counties, GA;
see
/issues/corpag/.
Dan Hilliard, Citrus County Chronicle, 31 July 2016, Bill Gates and the death of Florida’s iconic springs,
…while the degradation of South Florida waters receives national attention, contributions of big agriculture — exemplified by operations owned by Bill Gates — to the deterioration of North Florida waters have gone largely unnoticed.
Throughout North Florida, over-pumping of the Floridan aquifer and Continue reading