Our blackwater river neighbor to the west is having a paddle this Saturday.
Ocklockonee River Paddle in Thomasville,
Hosted by Mary Madden and Scott Taylor,
Saturday 11 April 2015,
Pack up your paddles, we are headed to deep southwest Georgia to explore the uncharted waters (at least in the case of our Stewardship Trips Program) of one of Georgia’s most mysterious rivers.
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Atlanta is surrounded by pipelines, says the AJC reporter and photographer who came to to Dougherty, Colquitt, and Lowndes Counties in February.
Dan Chapman, AJC, 3 April 2015, South Georgia pipeline plan fuels fight,
Valdosta — Southwest Georgia is roiling mad over a proposed gas pipeline to Florida that virtually nobody in Atlanta, except Ted Turner, has heard about.
Electric Light & Power has more of the text: Continue reading
Update 2015-04-17: Water’s high, but looks like the outing is on.
Paddle downstream on the Alapaha River past the Willacoochee River
and the city of Willacoochee,
among ancient cypress, pines, turtles, fish, and birds.
This is a long one, so come prepared:
water, snacks, and as always personal flotation devices.
It’s also remote and possibly difficult with deadfalls,
so please be able to swim or at least float.
If you need a boat, please contact wwalswatershed@gmail.com.
Facebook event.
| When: | 8AM April 18th 2015 |
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| Shuttle: | 40 min. shuttle |
| Start: | 9AM on the water |
| Duration: | approximately 4 hour paddle |
| Stop: | About 1PM |
| Where: | Rowetown Church Cemetery,
7 miles east of Alapaha, GA via Moore Sawmill Road, on Rowetown Church Road, Berrien County, GA 31.33906, -83.149789 |
This event is FREE! All we ask is that Continue reading
Update 2017-09-13: The Lowndes County Commissioners surprisingly agreed to rezone “backwards” to Estate A gricultural (E-A) at their Regular Session of 14 April 2015.
A historic dairy farm wants to go back to the most agricultural zoning,
upstream on Cherry Creek from the
Cherry Creek Sink that leaks into the
Floridan Aquifer.
Vallotton Farms (both the part outlined in red
that appears to be the subject of the rezoning and the bigger part west of Bemiss Road) includes quite a bit of Cherry Creek itself.
Agriculture is probably better than other likely uses in such a location. Continue reading
Calls from Atlanta and from downstream in Florida about the
three Valdosta wastewater overflows in February prompted WWALS as the local watershed organization to contact
the City of Valdosta about organizing a presentation to the interested parties.
Valdosta presented less than two weeks later, and brought their entire hierarchy related to this issue, from the mayor on down. Plus Lowndes County, which isn’t even responsible for Valdosta’s wastewater, was represented by their Chairman and a Commissioner.
In
Valdosta’s slides and the LAKE videos of that meeting of Tuesday 17 March 2015,
you can see many questions were answered, but some are still open. Continue reading
The local newspaper put a Hamilton County spin on the
Alapaha River Water Trail logo contest
PR, printed all three pictures, and ran it on most of full page.
Valdosta CEO also carried the PR 18 March 2015.
WWALS thanks all the logo prize donors, all the sponsors of the Alapaha River Water Trail, the teachers, and especially the student contestants.
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Saturday May 16th 2015 at Reed Bingham State Park,
you can join the annual fun paddling down our south Georgia blackwater Little River
past herons and alligators to the lake in Reed Bingham State Park, between Adel and Moultrie, equidistant from Tifton and Valdosta.
You can register online or at the event.
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And how many into Dukes Bay Canal, which also flows into Mud Creek,
to the Alapahoochee River, to the Alapaha River, to the Suwannee River, to the Gulf?
It’s great the Valdosta City Council Thursday will
consider more fixes to wastewater problems in the Withlacoochee River watershed.
But what is Valdosta doing about problems in the Alapaha River watershed?
The three Valdosta overflows into the Alapaha River watershed in February 2015 weren’t the first. How many others have there been?
This report is from 19 March 2014: Continue reading
Update 2015-03-20: Two Hamilton County businesses donate prizes for logo contest –Jasper News.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
South Georgia talent won the Alapaha River Water Trail Logo Contest
Alapaha, Georgia, March 16th 2015 — South Georgia’s got talent! Winners from Tift County High School and Lanier County High School got cash and other prizes for their logo submissions at the Alapaha River Water Trail conference Saturday.
![[Maya Turner with her First Place logo]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2015-03-14--logo-winners/winner-and-logo.jpg){kind=logo}
Maya Turner with her First Place logo in Logo Winners, by Deanna Mericle, 14 March 2015
WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman invited everyone to discuss river etiquette
and private property and to see the prizes awarded to the high school logo contest winners at the
Alapaha River Water Trail Conference tomorrow,
and to go on the
river outing afterwards.
She spoke in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard at the Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2015.
Here’s the video:
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