Brice Road, Okapilco Creek.
Category Archives: creeks
Wesley Chapel Road, Okapilco Creek
Perry Road, Okapilco Creek
Fish nesting downstream.
Little Creek just above Okapilco Creek
Perry Road.
Metal railing, Okapilco Creek
Old Berlin Road.
EPA Clean Water Rule finalized
I still see EPA’s new Clean Water Rule
as a good thing, since it protects drinking water,
paddling, and fishing, while opponents remain quite vague about
what might be wrong with it.
After last year’s comment period, U.S. EPA has posted a prepublication version of its final Clean Water Rule.
Katie Shepherd, L.A. Times, 27 May 2015, Under new EPA rule, Clean Water Act protections will cover all active tributaries, Continue reading
Sinkhole formation and collapse due to drilling under the Withlacoochee River
Drilling through fragile sinkhole-prone
karst limestone under the Withlacoochee River (or the Suwannee River,
or the Santa Fe River): what could possibly go wrong?
Sabal Trail now proposes to move off of the Withlacoochee River in
Florida, but still plans to cross the Withlacoochee in Georgia,
and to cross the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers, all of which have
the same hydrogeology.
You can talk directly to Sabal Trail and FERC at the
Open House in Jasper, Florida, 5-7PM Tuesday 21 October 2014,
and you can join WWALS where the Alapaha River
disappears entirely into a sinkhole,
at the
Alapaha Sink, 2PM Sunday 26 October 2014.
Here are before and after diagrams by Continue reading
Bowen Mill Pond, Brooks County, Georgia
For fishing in Brooks County, GA, try
Bowen Mill Pond, west of Quitman.
Heading west on US 84, turn right on Barwick Road between the Harveys and the Rite Aid, or right on Shiver Road.
Then turn left on Dry Lake Road, and eventually turn left on Bowen Mill Pond road.
You’ll see the pond on your right after a while.
Or, if you don’t mind dirt roads, turn off of US 84 onto Few Lane, immediately left onto Hassell Road, and when it curves to the right you’ll see the pond on your left.
Or keep going on US 84 until you see the tiny concrete marker Continue reading
Piscola Creek
Running through Thomas and Brooks Counties, Georgia to the Withlacoochee River,
Piscola Creek is on the
USDA National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI)
as two of the three Georgia Priority Watersheds,
all of which are in WWALS watersheds.
Upper Piscola Creek Watershed encompasses 25,936 acres of land in the southeast part of Thomas and western part of Brooks Counties in southwest Georgia. The land around the watershed is about 75 percent photo by Georgia NRCS crop, pasture, range and other associated agriculture use. About 20 percent of the watershed is forested. The other five percent is commercial or communities.
Middle Piscola Creek Watershed encompasses Continue reading
New Georgia law bans riding ATVs in riverbeds.
Terry Dickson and Walter C. Jones wrote for the Florida Times-Union Saturday, May 22, 2010,
New Georgia law bans riding ATVs in riverbeds,
The measure should increase safety and reduce environmental damage.
House Bill 207, Continue reading