WWALS Watershed Coalition, the Waterkeeper® Alliance Affiliate for the upper Suwannee River, will have a table at the
Suwannee River Roots Revival
at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, 13-16 October 2016.
That’s starting 4PM tomorrow, Thursday October 13th.
This is the festival we wrote has roots going back to the 1950s in the Suwannee River Jamboree radio show.
If you’d like to help with the WWALS table, Continue reading
All bids for the Naylor Boat Ramp were overbudget even though it went out for bids twice, so now Lowndes County
is working with GA-DNR on doing most of the work in-house with county personnel,
said Project Manager Chad McLeod at Monday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
They have to finish it eventually, because it was in the SPLOST VII ballot referendum approved by the voters of Lowndes County.
WWALS has the Naylor Boat Ramp listed on the Alapaha River Water Trail and we’re already Continue reading
Courtesy of Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, you can now see small, big, huge, and PDF versions of all 527 alignment maps Sabal Trail filed with FERC in April 2016: follow this link.
![[STA. 11870+00 TO STA. 11923+00, (UT OKAPILCO CREEK), 11881+44 CL SPAIN ROAD, 11871+70 CL GOLDING ROAD, BROOKS COUNTY, GEORGIA]](https://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/ferc/2016-04-07--stt-supp/small/20160407-5081-31369074-0012.jpg)
Having these maps online like this makes it easier to see what’s in them. Sabal Trail told FERC Okapilco Creek was not among the streams for which the Georgia legislature denied river-drilling easements (and for which Sabal Trail got the easements later anyway by suing the state in county Superior Courts). Yet Sabal Trail’s alignment maps from April 2016 seem to say that fracked methane pipeline crosses Okapilco Creek a couple of times in Brooks County, Georgia.
Here’s one of those times, in which the road names don’t match Continue reading
Update 2016-10-23:
Seen from the air.
Update 2016-10-19: PDF flyer.
Come hear about the $60 million in wastewater fixes Valdosta just finished,
what remains to be done, and what they’re doing about flood prevention for the entire Suwannee River Basin in Georgia and Florida.
You can ask questions in this first of a new WWALS Quarterly Speaker Series,
and the people organizing this work will be there to answer:
When: 6PM Thursday October 27th
Where: Valdosta City Hall Annex
Multipurpose Room
300 N Lee St.
Valdosta, GA 31601 Continue reading
Includes planning for Valdosta wastewater and flood prevention meeting, and final review of application to Waterkeeper Alliance for Suwannee Riverkeeper.
Draft Agenda
WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting
7:30 PM Wednesday 12 October 2016
IHOP, 1200 W 4th St, Adel, GA 31620All WWALS Board Members are expected to attend in person or by telephone. Continue reading
Where Sabal Trail connects to Transco: the head of the black snake,
at Hillabee Power Plant, owned by Exelon Corp., near Alexander City, Alabama.
We were driving by, so we took some pictures.
Here are
Sabal Trail’s Alignment Maps
for this area,
the
photographs I took yesterday,
and
a google map with links to the pictures,
plus
what you can do to stop this unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous fracked methane pipeline boondoggle.
Update 2016-10-10: All 527 of Sabal Trail’s April 2016 alignment maps are now available in small, big, huge, and PDF formats, courtesy of Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
Update 2016-10-23: Aerial photography and videos: US 84 HDD Withlacoochee River Sabal Trail 2016-10-22: what is that yellow thing in the river, and is that round thing you’ve marked a sinkhole?
Where would you guess Southeast Directional Drilling is based?
Nope: Arizona.
And the TRW truck has a Texas license plate.
So much for local jobs where Sabal Trail is preparing to drill
under the Withlacoochee River in Lowndes and Brooks Counties, Georgia,
between Valdosta and Quitman.
Here is a playlist of WWALS videos, followed by a google map, and still pictures: Continue reading
Follow this link for videos, more pictures, and a google map.
Follow this link for videos, more pictures, and a google map.
Update 2016-10-07: Postponed due to Hurricane Matthew. New date not yet known.
Next week, once again the upper Suwannee that drains into the Gulf gets pulled into a meeting with coastal Georgia Water Planning Councils.
GA DNR, Bulletin, 27 September 2016,
Statewide Water Plan – Joint Council Meeting #2 Agenda – October 6 / Dublin, GA,
Joint Council Meeting #2 — Eastern Councils
Thursday, October 6, 2016Dubose Porter Center
Oconee Fall Line Technical College
560 Pinehill Road
Dublin, GA 31021Agenda Continue reading