Update 2023-09-07: Cancelled: Langdale Park to Sugar Creek Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River, 2023-09-09.
Come help us remove some deadfalls that are impeding canoe and kayak paddling.
Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it.
But you do not have to use a saw to join us.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 1 PM, Saturday, September 9, 2023
Put In: Langdale Park Boat Ramp, 3781 N. Valdosta Rd., Valdosta, GA 31602,
GPS: 30.88747, -83.32395
![[Easy and hard deadfalls 2021-05-15]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-09-09--langdale-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-river/many.jpg)
Easy and hard deadfalls,
2021-05-15
Come help clean up the Withlacoochee River behind the Valdosta YMCA and onwards to the Little River Confluence, then upstream on the Little River to Troupville Boat Ramp. Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it, but you do not have to saw to join us.
Our main target this time is one remaining big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133.
When: Gather 1 PM, launch 1:30 PM, end 6 PM, Thursday, August 3, 2023
Put In: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll put in at the railroad tracks.
![[Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30; Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16; Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-08-03]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-03--retry-sugar-creek-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup/many.jpg)
Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30;
Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16;
Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-08-03
Update 2023-07-29: Sewage spill sign at Sugar Creek below the Salty Snapper.
Thanks to Russell Allen McBride for leading the rerouted on-land Sugar Creek and mostly Withlacoochee River cleanup. Children and experienced adults teamed up to get the job done. We found only one big trash jam and we cleaned that one up.
Phil Hubbard came with boat and chainsaws ready to do a chainsaw cleanup, but due to the reroute there was no chainsawing.
We thanked Valdosta Assistant Utilities Director Jason Barnes for alerting us to the sewage spill contamination in Sugar Creek that caused us to reroute from a cleanup paddle to an on-land cleanup. He arrived before we left, so we thanked him again in person.
![[Before, WaterGoat, Trashjam, Level log, after, Sugar Creek, Withlacoochee River 2023-07-22]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-07-22--sugar-creek-cleanup-pictures/many.jpg)
Before, WaterGoat, Trashjam, Level log, after, Sugar Creek, Withlacoochee River 2023-07-22
Yes, Vivian, there could be alligators. Continue reading
Update 2023-07-22:Pictures: Sugar Creek Withlacoochee River on-land cleanup 2023-07-22.
Due to bad water quality reports for Sugar Creek heard from the City of Valdosta, we are revising the cleanup from a paddle to an on-land cleanup. Please come to Sugar Creek at 9AM to hear where we will go from there.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 1 PM, Saturday, July 22, 2023
Where: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll go to appropriate locations from there.
![[At Langdale Park Boat Ramp: Caution Sewage Spill City of Valdosta --Bobby McKenzie 2023-07-21]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-07-22--langdale-park-boat-ramp-sewage-sign/IMG_3271.jpg)
At Langdale Park Boat Ramp: Caution Sewage Spill City of Valdosta –Bobby McKenzie 2023-07-21
Bring: Cleanup materials will be provided, but if you’ve got a trash picker, bring it along. Bring sturdy shoes and clothes, drinking water, and snacks.
There is no need to bring a boat. Continue reading
Come help us clean up more trash jams we found last time.
Most of it is legacy trash from Valdosta.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 10 AM, end 3 PM, Saturday, August 5, 2023
Put In: Knights Ferry Boat Ramp, 6499 Knights Ferry Rd, Valdosta, GA 31601, in Lowndes County.
GPS: 30.71205, -83.45554
![[Floating trash jam 2023-04-08 and on-land trash 2022-12-17]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-03--kf-nankin-withlacoochee-cleanup/many.jpg)
Floating trash jam 2023-04-08 and
on-land trash 2022-12-17
It went well, the joint WWALS and City of Valdosta cleanup of Two Mile Branch at Berkley Drive, on March 25, 2023.
Many good things have happened since then.
However, there is still plenty the City needs to do about trash.
![[Collage @ Two Mile Branch Cleanup 2023-03-25]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-03-25--two-mile-branch-berkley-drive-cleanup-pictures/many.jpg)
Collage @ Two Mile Branch Cleanup 2023-03-25
Thanks to Bobby McKenzie for leading, neighbor Jan Powell for rustling up some participants and helping at the table, to City Engineer Ben O’Dowd, City Council Tim Carroll, and Mayor Scott James Matheson for helping, along with quite a few other volunteers.
See also facebook photosets and videos by:
Some of the things the Engineer and Mayor promised have happened. Continue reading
We are rescheduling this Saturday’s chainsaw cleanup, due to water level too high and more rainfall predicted all week causing the Withlacoochee River to stay high.
We are merging it with the other cleanup on the same stretch of the river:
Sugar Creek to Troupville, Withlacoochee River Cleanup 2023-07-22.
Russell Allen McBride will lead the regular cleanup,
and Phil Hubbard will lead the chainsaw cleanup.
The groups of paddlers will probably proceed at different speeds.
See:
https://wwals.net/?p=62071
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/614883607025723
Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/withlacoochee-alapaha-suwannee-rivers-wwals-outings/events/293624535/
The Skipper Bridge gauge has predictions of water levels. Which show Continue reading
The second Suwannee River Chainsaw Cleanup went well. Got a little hot in the middle, and rained towards the end.
![[Chainsawing deadfalls, Suwannee River 2023-06-10]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-06-10--suwannee-chainsaw-pictures/many.jpg)
Chainsawing deadfalls, Suwannee River 2023-06-10
But the rain came only after we cleared four deadfalls above Fargo Ramp and Reeves Landing: Continue reading
Update 2023-06-20: Rescheduled: Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup 2023-06-24 to merge with Sugar Creek to Troupville, Withlacoochee River Cleanup 2023-07-22.
We need volunteers to pick up trash while a few people chainsaw some deadfalls.
Our main target this time is one remaining big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133.
Yes, this stretch from Sugar Creek to Troupville is the same as for the plain old cleanup a month later.
When: 9 AM, Saturday, June 24, 2023
Put In: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll put in at the railroad tracks.
![[A deadfall between I-75 and GA 133, and a previous deadfall]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-06-24--chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-river/many.jpg)
A deadfall between I-75 and GA 133, and a previous deadfall
Update 2023-05-19: Fixed boat ramp attribution: Nankin, not Sasser.
Thanks to Georgia Rivers Alive for giving WWALS the 2022 Adopt-A-Stream Award for cleanups. This is the second year running WWALS has won this award.
![[Nankin Boat Ramp 2022-12-17, Statenville Boat Ramp 2023-01-07, Adopt-A-Stream Award 2023-04-27]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-04-27--wwals-rivers-alive-adopt-a-stream-award/many.jpg)
Adopt-A-Stream Award 2023-04-27
Photos: WWALS, at Nankin Boat Ramp 2022-12-17 and Statenville Boat Ramp 2023-01-07
While we appreciate the award, we’d much rather not have trash to clean up. There is some progress on that. The worst trash offender, Valdosta, has now Continue reading
![[Gauges, target deadfall]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-06-24--chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-rescheduled/many.jpg)