Every few years Banks Lake gets drained is an effort to stymie unwanted aquatic vegetation.
Hydrilla verticillata forms dense mats at the surface of the water. The dense mats can Continue reading
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WWALS to FCC: Cancel vote on Order against net neutrality
If you like hearing about outings and advocacy so you can participagte, please contact the FCC today to oppose their vote tomorrow that would greatly damage the open Internet we all use to communicate and organize.
Please call or email the three Commissioners who favor this unfortunate Order:
- Main #: 1-888-225-5322
- Chairman Pai: Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
- Commmissioner Rielly: Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
- Commissioner Carr: Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
You can also file comments, which are publicly visible, and thus may help get others to call or write the FCC.
To submit a written comment:
- https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings
- Either in the menu on the left (desktop) or the pulldown from the top (mobile), select Express.
- File a comment in WC Docket 17-108.
- Be sure to say you are against the proposed Order and for net neutrality.
Below is the letter I filed with the FCC today, confirmation number 20171213002539051; or see PDF.
Cattle, sinkholes, and digups vs. Sabal Trail: Janet Barrow 2017-11-20
Sabal Trail apparently doesn’t know cattle.
The pipeline company claimed they know restoration, but that’s not what the ground looks like now, with sparse vegetation and erosion. They say they love wildlife, but they drove off a heron and who knows what else. They’re driving down property values. What are those bubbles? Which milepoint is which, anyway? Janet Barrow lives in Marion County, but she also reports on Citrus County. For 54 pages, with a summation.
For the rest of FERC Accession Number 20171120-5026, “Comment of Janet L Barrow under CP15-17, et. al.; A Citizen’s Supplemental Information Regarding Sabal Trail’s October, 2017 Monthly Report” on the WWALS website, follow this link.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Hagan Bridge Landing, Withlacoochee River, GA 122 2017-11-26
Pretty low at Hagan Bridge, the start of the WWALS outing down the Withlacoochee River to Franklinville, February 2, 2018.
I took these pictures Saturday a week ago, November 26, 2017, when the Skipper Bridge gauge read Continue reading
Hike to Spook Bridge 2017-11-11
We made it to Spook Bridge from US 84! It was a small group, four of us, on a cold November afternoon. And we saw the sad remains of Wade Spring.
Paddling upstream was not practicable, Continue reading
SWIM Plan Meeting, Live Oak 2017-10-03
Nitrates, agriculture, and silviculture were already in, and sewage, phosphate mines, and the Floridan Aquifer got added yesterday afternoon in Live Oak in public comments on updates to SRWMD’s SWIM Plans, plus new SRWMD E.D. Hugh Thomas spoke.
Thanks to presenter Tom Singleton, the slides presented are on the WWALS website. Here are a few notes and pictures.
Floridan Aquifer
Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson of Sierra Club Florida noted Continue reading
GA DNR responds about Sabal Trail at Okapilco Creek 2017-09-21
Not the answer I was looking for, but GA-EPD is still by far the most responsive agency regarding Sabal Trail.
Lisa Myler of GA-DNR called back Friday about 7PM saying Tom Fowler had been to the Okapilco Creek Sabal Trail sinkhole site I reported.
I called her back Monday, and after DNR’s web server came back up she forwarded Tom Fowler’s report today: Continue reading
Public meeting, Live Oak, Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) 2017-10-03
When: 1:30PM to 4:30PM, Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Where: SRWMD Office, 9225 County Road 49, Live Oak, Florida
Event: Suwannee River SWIM Plan public meeting
Received this morning:
Suwannee River and Coastal Rivers SWIM Plan interested parties:
In 2016, the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) received funds from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to develop consolidated updates to the Continue reading
Sinkhole, Sabal Trail, Okapilco Creek, Brooks County, GA 2017-09-19
Update 2017-09-21: Yes, I reported it to GA-EPD, et al. (PDF), and here are facebook photos of most of the images below.
How close to exposed is Sabal Trail’s pipe? This sinkhole is at least a foot deep, maybe two or more, and Sabal Trail only buried their pipe three feet deep, despite requests by Brooks, Colquitt, and Lowndes Counties to bury it deeper.
N of sinkhole, Sinkhole
Is that fill material exposed Continue reading
HPS II attorney at Union BOCC
Setbacks, he says.
The Commissioners voted unanimously to table the amendments to the Union County Comprehensive Plan, after attorneys for the opponents submitted many suggested modifications and attorneys for the proposed miners asked for more time.
WWALS videos of most of the numerous speakers will follow.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!