Sewage spills in the Suwannee River Basin, Totals by WWALS as 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.

Sewage spills in the Suwannee River Basin, Totals by WWALS as reported to GA-EPD [Up]

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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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.