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Pictures: WWALS Booth at The Happening, VSU Front Lawn 2025-08-28

Many students, some wanting to be interns, and many volunteers, at the WWALS Booth, at The Happening, VSU Front Lawn, Thursday, August 27, 2025.

This is the annual student orientation festival at Valdosta State University. It’s on a summer afternoon with classes in session, so students kept showing up between classes.

[WWALS Booth at The Happening, VSU Front Lawn, 2025-08-28]
WWALS Booth at The Happening, VSU Front Lawn, 2025-08-28

Thanks to former WWALS Water Quality Tester Michael Bachrach and WWALS Board members Russ Tatum, Scotti Jay, and Sara Squires Jones for helping at the booth, along with premier volunteer Gretchen Quarterman, and Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman.

Scotti and Sara showed up just in time when I was talking about the 2023 fish kill and the 2025 sewage spill that Scotti discovered on One Mile Branch, the creek that runs through the VSU campus into Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River. Continue reading

WWALS Booth at The Happening, VSU Front Lawn 2025-08-28

VSU students, come to our informational booth about water issues, events, and outings.

WWALS members, you can help at the booth.

When: 1 PM, Thursday, August 28, 2025

Put In: VSU Front Lawn

[WWALS Booth at The Happening at VSU, VSU Front Lawn, Thursday, August 28, 2025]
WWALS Booth at The Happening at VSU, VSU Front Lawn, Thursday, August 28, 2025

One Mile Branch runs through VSU. Downstream is the notoriously spilling Wainwright Drive manhole, on the way to Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River.

For more about The Happening at VSU, see:
https://www.valdosta.edu/student/student-life/special-events/the-happening/ Continue reading

Video: Summary of water quality testing at Lowndes County Commission 2022-10-11

Most of the Lowndes County Commissioners were not familiar with the water quality testing WWALS is doing, and now they are.

[Summary of WWALS water quality testing @ LCC 2022-10-11]
Summary of WWALS water quality testing @ LCC 2022-10-11

Here’s the video: Continue reading