Update 2025-07-14: Location of Sugar Creek Major Spill 2025-07-14.
Sewage is back in Sugar Creek, with children playing in it.
WWALS tester Suzy Hall reported this morning, “Yesterday I visited the goat. As I approached, I heard kids splashing, jumping and having a ball. There was, to me, a slight smell…and the water color was off. I hoped I was wrong, but I wasn’t. It’s nasty. It’s too early to pull the plates, but it’s going to be TNTC at the goat.” Continue reading
Update 2025-07-13: New sewage spill in Sugar Creek 2025-07-12.
We have good E. coli results on the Withlacoochee River for this week.
![[Clean Withlacoochee River, 2025-07-09, Happy paddling, boating, swimming, and fishing]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-07-09--wq/many.jpg)
Clean Withlacoochee River, 2025-07-09, Happy paddling, boating, swimming, and fishing
We don’t know about Sugar Creek; nobody tested that this week. Strange as it seems, chances are that creek is also clean.
No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida. or Georgia.
Rain or thunderstorms are likely for the next ten days.
As near as we can tell, happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating this weekend, if you can beat the rain!
Maybe join WWALS today for
Chainsaw upstream from Troupville, Withlacoochee River 2025-07-12.
https://wwals.net/?p=67870
We have good E. coli results on the Alapaha and Withlacoochee Rivers and Franks Creek for this week.
We don’t know about Sugar Creek; nobody tested that this week.
No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida. or Georgia.
Rain or thunderstorms are likely for the next ten days.
Since these recent tests were after previous rains, apparently we’re past first flush. That means whatever was in the woods has washed out now, so more rain may not cause much contamination.
So as near as we can tell, happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating this weekend, if you can beat the rain!
![[Clean Alapaha River 2025-06-29, Withlacoochee River and Franks Creek 2025-07-02]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-07-02--wq/many.jpg)
Clean Alapaha River 2025-06-29, Withlacoochee River and Franks Creek 2025-07-02
Maybe join WWALS tomorrow for
Turner Bridge to Cone Bridge Paddle, Suwannee River 2025-07-05.
https://wwals.net/?p=67557
Update 2025-07-16: Pictures: Chainsaw upstream from Troupville, Withlacoochee River 2025-07-12.
Join us to get the deadfalls revealed by lower water levels. Yes, we’re still cleaning up after Hurricane Helene.
You do not have to saw. You can pick up trash, take pictures, or just paddle.
You can also walk along the right (west) bank of the Withlacoochee River much of the way.
If the water level is too low for boating, we will all be walking.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 10 AM, end 3:30 PM, Saturday, July 12, 2025
Put In: Troupville Boat Ramp, 19664 Valdosta Hwy, Valdosta, GA 31602. I-75 exit 18, west on GA 133 (St. Augustine Road) away from the Valdosta Mall, at the traffic light for Val Tech Road, turn left down to the boat ramp, in Lowndes County.
Continue readingUpdate 2025-07-04: Clean Alapaha and Withlacoochee Rivers 2025-07-02.
WWALS and Valdosta Utilities got good E. coli results on the Withlacoochee River.
We don’t know about Sugar Creek; nobody tested that this week.
No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Florida. There was one tiny spill near Adel, Georgia, reported to be completely contained.
Rain or thunderstorms are likely for the next ten days.
Since these recent tests were after previous rains, apparently we’re past first flush. That means whatever was in the woods has washed out now, so more rain may not cause much contamination.
So as near as we can tell, happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating this weekend, if you can beat the rain!
Maybe by a week from Saturday there will be no rain for
Turner Bridge to Cone Bridge Paddle, Suwannee River, 2025-07-05.
https://wwals.net/?p=67557
I’m going to agree with something a supporter of the now bought-out mine said: we need better economic solutions for south Georgia forest owners. And beyond that, for south Georgia. So counties and cities won’t be tempted by jobs promised by mines, landfills, private prisons, and pellet plants.
Drew Jones wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today, June 26, 2025, Okefenokee deal exposed how Georgia’s forest policy is flawed and needs reform, Continue reading
Update 2025-06-27: Clean Withlacoochee River 2025-06-26.
WWALS and Valdosta Utilities got good E. coli results on the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers.
We don’t know about Sugar Creek; nobody tested that this week.
No new sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida.
There’s some chance of rain for the next four days.
Since these recent tests were after previous rains, apparently we’re past first flush. That means whatever was in the woods has washed out now, so more rain may not cause much contamination.
So as near as we can tell, happy paddling, swimming, fishing, and boating this weekend, if you can beat the rain!
![[Clean Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers 2025-06-19, Happy swimming, paddling, boating, and fishing]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-19--wq/many.jpg)
Clean Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers 2025-06-19, Happy swimming, paddling, boating, and fishing
Maybe join us tomorrow for
spring hopping,
Florida Campsites to Allen Ramp, Withlacoochee River 2025-06-21.
https://wwals.net/?p=67572
Continue reading
We’re in the season of evapotranspiration now, when we may get as much rain as in winter, but it evaporates or transpires from leaves, leaving less in rivers and springs.
Today is the Summer Solstice. At high noon the sun will be as far north as it will get all year, ditto when it rises and sets. The actual solstice is 10:42 p.m. EDT, when the sun’s axis is pointed the most towards the sun.
From then on is astronomical summer, until the Fall Equinox, which will be September 22, 2025, when the lengths of day and night will be most close to equal.
![[Seasons and the orbit of the Earth --NASA]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-20--summer-solstice/seasons-earth-orbit_large.jpg)
Seasons and the orbit of the Earth –NASA
If you like hot, join us tommorrow for Florida Campsites to Allen Ramp, Withlacoochee River 2025-06-21.
There’s also meteorological summer, which Continue reading
Thanks to Gee Edwards for leading this one at the last minute, after Janet had some sort of dancing injury.
Janet did not paddle. Nor did I, although I brought Honeybun, Blondie, and Sky to help out. River stayed home.
Janet and Gee are WWALS Board members.
Janet and Kim Tanner (not present) are the co-chairs of the WWALS Outings Committee.
Maybe you’d like to join that committee to help schedule outings.
https://wwals.net/about/committees/#wwals-outings
The next Full Moon paddle is Continue reading
Update 2025-06-16: Additional documents for Chemours permit application to mine SRWMD land 2025-06-16.
This is what I filed by the Thursday deadline as public comments on the latest Chemours mining permit application. This one is to expand the Trail Ridge South Mine onto land owned by the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD). I continue to wonder why SRWMD bought this land, allegedly for conservation, if they were going to let Chemours mine on it?
Several other organizations also filed comments, some of them also calling for a Public Hearing.
Continue reading![[New sewage spill in Sugar Creek, E. coli Too Numerous to Count 2025-07-12, Spill site at railroad bridge, Valdosta Utilities is on it]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-07-12--wq/many.jpg)
![[Chainsaw upstream from Troupville, Withlacoochee River 2025-07-12, Get deadfalls revealed by lower water levels]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-07-12--chainsaw-cleanup-troupville-upstream-withlacoochee/fbmany.jpg)
![[Clean Withlacoochee River in Georgia and Florida, 2025-06-26; Small spill near Adel, GA, 2025-06-20, Morrison Creek, Little River]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-26--wq/many.jpg)
![[Georgia needs better economics, for forestry & rural south Georgia, Drew Jones, Charlton Co. Commission, Okefenokee Swamp & blackwater rivers]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-26--forests-okefenokee/fbmany.jpg)
![[Full Strawberry Moon, Banks Lake NWR 2025-06-12, A small but hardy crowd, not scared of rain predictions]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-11--full-strawberry-moon-banks-lake-pictures/many.jpg)
![[Questions and call for Public Hearing, Chemours application to mine SRWMD land, Santa Fe River Basin --WWALS to USACE 2025-06-12]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-06-12--wwals-usace-chemours-trail-ridge-south-mine/fbmany.jpg)