Pictures and a movie clip from the air (thanks, Southwings!)
of Mozell Spells, aka
Madison Highway Boat Ramp,
State Line Ramp (GA DNR) or GA 31 Ramp (SRWMD) or CR 145 Bridge Launch (FDEP).
This is one of two dozen public landings on the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WLRWT). It’s at the Georgia-Florida state line, and in the big picture (scroll down) you can see Continue reading
Does Sabal Trail think black bears can’t walk the short distance from 24th Street, Stagecoach Road, and US 90 to 199th Place?
What about those fox squirrels and indigo snakes?
Gopher tortoises are also more places than people might think.
And what about that sinkhole only about 200 feet from the pipeline at Pilgrim’s Pride on US 90? These two pictures were taken from the same place, looking in opposite directions:
Here are the pictures, from north to south. I actually started on Continue reading
Very dry, and this was a week ago Sunday, with a bit more than 23 feet on the Nobles Ferry USGS gage.
Surprisingly, the water’s not much lower now according to that gage.
Somebody asked us at Suwannee River Roots Revival: why is the Suwannee River so low? He was from the Atlantic coast of Florida, where they just had hurricanes, and didn’t realize: none of that rain fell upstream inland in Florida and Georgia up to the Okefenokee Swamp.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
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Sabal Trail plans to start drilling here in the next few days.
I count three houses within the blast radius just in this picture
at the Santa Fe River just east of US 129 in Suwannee and Gilchrist Counties, Florida.
See also
Jim Tatum’s pictures of this Santa Fe River Sabal Trail HDD location from this flight.
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Update 2016-10-24: Questions filed with FERC in Docket CP15-17 as Accession Number 20161024-5049 and emailed to USACE and GA-EPD (PDF).
What is
that yellow thing in the river, Sabal Trail?
Is that a sinkhole you’ve marked at the Lowndes County HDD site?
And
does blue pipe mean thinner for rural areas like
your executive from Houston told us in WWALS v Sabal Trail & FDEP?
FERC gave you permission to Continue reading
Uphill and farther from the river: the new Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment plant (top left of center) seen next to the old one, the Pecan Row Landfill, and the Withlacoochee River.
Come ask your questions for the entire Suwannee River basin about wastewater and flood prevention this Thursday, October 27th 2016, at the Valdosta City Hall Annex.
The $60 million in fixes so far and those still in progress are a big improvement
for everybody downstream to the Gulf on the Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and Suwannee Rivers, and upstream on the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail. Continue reading
Southwings flight for WWALS, pilot Roy Zimmer.
Yes, it’s Sabal Trail pipe in an unregistered pipe yard.
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Landowners can ask for something else.
Right now in Mitchell and Colquitt County, Georgia, Troy Construction is heading south, covering up the pipe they planted with seed, which according to
Sabal Trail’s documents is bermuda grass and bahia grass,
both of which are
exotic invasive species in Georgia.
According to Sabal Trail’s documents,
“Alternative seed mixes specifically requested by the landowner or required by agencies may be used.”
Now I’m told by at least one Georgia agency that both those grasses can be killed off with Roundup if they spread. But is that really what we want in and near our waterways and wetlands? And why should neighboring landowners have to fight exotic invasive species brought in by an invading pipeline?
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A hunter asked about bag limits at
the new
Alapaha River Wildlife Management Area (WMA)
on the Alapaha River in Irwin County betweeen Tifton and Ocilla.
It depends on whether you sign in or you check in.
The answer is not in the approved hunting season dates for the Alapaha WMA, found in other Alapaha WMA information. That’s because it’s in the general July 2016-June 2017 hunting regulations for Georgia. On page 34, note the phrase at the end of “Check-In Hunt” that I’ve emphasized below: Continue reading
Monday Sabal Trail asked FERC
to
add a contractor yard in Colquitt County,
and to change routing
under a small stream.
No rush: Sabal Trail wants approval by tomorrow,
Thursday, October 20th 2016.
Presumably because they’re racing hell-for-leather to meet their May 2017
in-service drop-dead date, after which (according to FPL’s RFP)
they could forfeit a $200 million bond or lose the contract.
Here, courtesy of Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), are Sabal Trail’s October 17th 2016 maps of that stream, plus Sabal Trail’s April 2016 maps of where it wants to cross the stream it flows into, Hog Creek and that stream’s downstream Okapilco Creek.
We’ve already seen where Sabal Trail is drilling under the Withlacoochee River between Valdosta and Quitman, Georgia and under the Suwannee River in Suwannee River State Park. Plus there’s an encampment of water protectors in Suwannee County.