Totals by WWALS of sewage spills in the Suwannee River Basin reported to GA-EPD

WWALS Watershed Coalition

WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER® WWALS advocates for conservation and stewardship of the surface waters and groundwater of the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary, in south Georgia and north Florida, among them the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, Santa Fe, and Suwannee River watersheds, through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

Totals by WWALS of sewage spills in the Suwannee River Basin reported to GA-EPD [Up]

Wainwright or Waynewright Drive, January 2015 to present

One chronic trouble spot on One Mile Branch.

Only Wainwright or Waynewright for Totals: 2016-02-04 to 2025-08-23 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 985,875 GA0033235 Suwannee

Only Wainwright or Waynewright for 2016-02-04 to 2025-08-23 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2016-02-04 Lowndes Valdosta 1200 Block of Wainwright Street 90,500 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2016-04-02 Lowndes Valdosta 1200 Block of Waynewright Street 199,550 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2017-01-22 Lowndes Valdosta 1200 Block of Wainwright Drive - Valdosta 9,800 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2018-12-03 Lowndes Valdosta 1200 Block of Waynewright - Valdosta (1208 Wainwright) 166,725 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2018-12-14 Lowndes Valdosta 1208 Wainwright Drive - Valdosta 51,800 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2021-07-07 Lowndes valdosta 1212 Wainwright Dr 37,500 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather Suwannee 1 Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2024-04-11 Lowndes Valdosta 112 Wainwright Dr 150,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Hydraulic Overload Suwannee One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2024-08-05 Lowndes Valdosta 1212 Wainwright Dr 9,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Natural Disaster Suwannee One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2024-11-07 Lowndes Valdosta 1212 Wainwright Dr 250,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Wet weather Suwannee One Mile Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-08-04 Lowndes Valdosta 1212 Wainwright Dr Valdosta 1,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Suwannee Sugar Creek

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-08-23 Lowndes Valdosta 1212 Wainwright Drive Valdosta, Georgia 31601 GA0033235 Hurricane or Large Stormwater Event,High Levels of Inflow, Inadequate Treatment Plant Capacity High Levels of Inflow,

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-08-23 Lowndes Valdosta 1212 Wainwright Drive Valdosta, Georgia 31601 20,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 Collection System Hurricane or Large Stormwater Event,High Levels of Inflow, Inadequate Treatment Plant Capacity High Levels of Inflow, Suwannee One MIle Branch

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Wetherington Lane, January 2015 to present

Valdosta's Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant on Spring Branch above the Withlacoochee River.

Only Wetherington for Totals: 2017-01-22 to 2025-09-22 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 17,602,000 GA0033235 Suwannee

Only Wetherington for 2017-01-22 to 2025-09-22 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2017-01-22 Lowndes Valdosta 3180 Wetherington Lane - Valdosta 2,200,000 Other GA0033235 WWTP Wet weather Withlacoochee River/Little River

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2024-04-12 Lowndes Valdosta 3108 Wetherington Ln- Withlacoochee WPCP 6,700,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 WWTP Hydraulic Overload Suwannee Withlacoochee River

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2024-11-07 Lowndes Valdosta 318 Wetherington Ln- Withlacoochee WPCP 7,200,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 WWTP Wet weather Suwannee Spring Branch

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-08-24 Lowndes Valdosta 3180 Wetherington Lane Valdosta, Georgia 31601 Raw Sewage GA0033235 WWTP Hurricane or Large Stormwater Event,High Levels of Inflow, Inadequate Treatment Plant Capacity High Levels of Inflow, Suwannee Withlacoochee River

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-08-24 Lowndes Valdosta 3180 Wetherington Lane Valdosta, Georgia 31601 1,500,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 WWTP Aging Infrastructure,Hurricane or Large Stormwater Event,High Levels of Inflow, Inadequate Treatment Plant Capacity High Levels of Inflow,Inadequate TWTDS Capacity Due to Stormwater Event, Suwannee Withlacoochee River

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) 2025-09-22 Lowndes Valdosta 3182 Wetherington Lane Valdosta, Georgia 31601 2,000 Raw Sewage GA0033235 WWTP Other, Suwannee

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January 2015 to present

A decade of sewage spills. From the earliest GA-EPD records we have to the present.

Totals: 2015-01-04 to 2025-09-22 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Sycamore, City of (Sycamore WPCP) Turner sycamore 350 GAJ020067 Suwannee

Nashville Berrien Nashville 2,000 Suwannee

Homerville, City of (Homerville WPCP) Clinch Homerville 5,000 GA0031828 Suwannee

Hahira Lowndes Hahira 6,000 Suwannee

Lowndes Valdosta 9,000

U.S. Department of Air Base (Moody Air Force Base) Lowndes Valdosta 14,082 GA0020001 Suwannee

Talbotton, City of (Talbotton WPCP) Tift Tifton 17,500 GA0047805

Adel, City of (Adel WPCP) Cook Adel 34,150 GA0024911 Suwannee

Rochelle, City of (Northwest WPCP) Wilcox Rochelle 110,434 GA0024244

Rochelle, City of (Southeast WPCP) Wilcox Rochelle 260,000 GA0024236 Suwannee

Valdosta, City of (Mud Creek WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 279,875 GA0020222

Lowndes County (South Regional WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 333,000 GAJ020294

Quitman, City of (Quitman WPCP) Brooks Quitman 787,892 GAJ020022 Suwannee

Tifton, City of (New River WPCP) Tift Tifton 2,620,160 GA0048470 Suwannee

Ashburn, City of (Airport WPCP) Turner Ashburn 8,620,500 GA0025852 Suwannee

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 39,016,171 GA0033235 Suwannee

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December 2018 to present

Since the beginning of the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report.

Totals: 2018-12-02 to 2025-09-22 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see https://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER WASTEWATER FACILITY TYPE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Sycamore, City of (Sycamore WPCP) Turner sycamore 350 GAJ020067 Suwannee

Homerville, City of (Homerville WPCP) Clinch Homerville 5,000 GA0031828 Suwannee

U.S. Department of Air Base (Moody Air Force Base) Lowndes Valdosta 14,082 GA0020001 Suwannee

Adel, City of (Adel WPCP) Cook Adel 34,150 GA0024911 Suwannee

Lowndes County (South Regional WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 35,000 GAJ020294

Rochelle, City of (Northwest WPCP) Wilcox Rochelle 73,670 GA0024244

Quitman, City of (Quitman WPCP) Brooks Quitman 785,392 GAJ020022 Suwannee

Tifton, City of (New River WPCP) Tift Tifton 1,844,030 GA0048470 Suwannee

Ashburn, City of (Airport WPCP) Turner Ashburn 6,241,500 GA0025852 Suwannee

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 32,022,306 GA0033235 Suwannee

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January 2015 to 2019

From the earliest GA-EPD records we have from 2015 to the beginning of 2019.

Totals: 2015-01-04 to 2019-01-24 in GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for the Suwannee River Basin by WWALS Watershed Coalition; see http://wwals.net/issues/vww/ga-spills
FACILITY NAME BEGIN DATE COUNTY CITY OVERFLOW LOCATION QUANTITY GALLONS OVERFLOW TYPE PERMIT NUMBER SPILL SOURCE SPILL PRIMARY CAUSE RIVER BASIN WATERWAY IMPACTED

Nashville Berrien Nashville 2,000 Suwannee

Hahira Lowndes Hahira 6,000 Suwannee

Lowndes Valdosta 9,000

Talbotton, City of (Talbotton WPCP) Tift Tifton 17,500 GA0047805

Rochelle, City of (Northwest WPCP) Wilcox Rochelle 39,264 GA0024244 Suwannee

Quitman, City of (Quitman WPCP) Brooks Quitman 242,500 GAJ020022 Suwannee

Rochelle, City of (Southeast WPCP) Wilcox Rochelle 260,000 GA0024236 Suwannee

Valdosta, City of (Mud Creek WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 279,875 GA0020222

Lowndes County (South Regional WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 333,000 GAJ020294

Tifton, City of (New River WPCP) Tift Tifton 906,230 GA0048470 Suwannee

Ashburn, City of (Airport WPCP) Turner Ashburn 2,379,000 GA0025852 Suwannee

Valdosta, City of (Withlacoochee WPCP) Lowndes Valdosta 13,267,460 GA0033235

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WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS), est. 2012, is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-for-profit charity.
WWALS advocates for conservation and stewardship of the surface waters and groundwater of the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary, in south Georgia and north Florida, among them the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, Santa Fe, and Suwannee River watersheds, through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.
Since 2016, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER® is a project and a staff member of WWALS as the Waterkeeper Alliance® member for the 10,000 square mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia.