Withlacoochee River
Hamilton County, FL
Withlacoochee River at US 84, 2015-08-28
Halfway between Quitman and Valdosta, the Withlacoochee River
forms the border between
Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia.
Parking on the median on the east, Lowndes County, side, you can climb down the highway rocks and down a creek bed to the river. Continue reading
Withlacoochee River @ US 84
For more pictures and a video, see other post.
Scott backs environmentally dubious pipeline from firm he invested in –Miami New Times
Adding
a video from the Arkansas River pipeline geyser,
another
Miami
paper picked up
last week’s Florida Bulldog story.
Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, 17 August 2015, Scott backs environmentally dubious pipeline from firm he invested in, Continue reading
WWALS hopes to block Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline –Ocala StarBanner
Add that many WWALS members, some pictured here on the Suwannee River
at the proposed Sabal Trail crossing, live in Florida,
and this article from that same day is a good summary of the situation a week ago.
It was also picked up by
Bakken.com, “Powered by Shale Plays Media”.
Christopher Curry, Ocala StarBanner, 15 August 2015, Georgia-based group hopes to block natural gas pipeline, Continue reading
Chattahoochee River Polluter Fined $10 Million
A big win from a Waterkeeper member in Georgia! CRK Press Release 17 August 2015:
Atlanta — US District Court Judge Orinda Evans levied a $10 million penalty on American Sealcoat Manufacturing LLC (Sealcoat) for unlawful discharge of toxic pollutants into the Chattahoochee River near Fulton Industrial Park. The Judge ruled in a Clean Water Act complaint brought by Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK), which discovered and reported the dumping.
CRK filed its lawsuit against Continue reading
FL Gov. Scott’s blind trust isn’t opaque
Federal disclosure laws require revealing some information Florida’s
blind trust law supposedly hides, and there are other cracks
in that state law that let a reporter see some of what’s in
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s blind trust, including last year
that he owned stock in Spectra Energy and its subsidiary DCP Midstream Partners LP,
as well as in Williams Co. and a flock of other pipeline and fossil fuel companies.
Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org, 19 August 2015, You don’t need X-ray vision to see through Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust, Continue reading
Video: Steam engine, bridges, trees, beaches, and trash: Alapaha River by Diane Shearer
Also boating, deadfalls, steam engine, and rapids. Diane Shearer presented slides about the Alapaha River of her homeland, 31 March 2012 at Georgia River Network Weekend for Rivers, and said:
Right there at Alapaha, where it’s been clearcut behind it. This is one of the main problems of the river: there used to be nothing on that shore there but huge cypress trees and tupelo trees, and that’s almost gone everywhere. And that’s one of the great dangers to this river, is agricultural runoff, the fact that people can suck all the water out of it they want to, for irrigation and those sorts of things.
The video starts Continue reading
Back in Douglas: Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Council 2015-08-31
According to GA-DNR, 17 August 2015,
The Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Council will meet on Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:00am in the meeting room of
Aniston’s Restaurant, located at 1404 W. Baker Highway, Douglas, GA. Registration begins at 9:30am. The Council will be hearing presentations on surface water supply and agricultural water-use forecasting. The Council will also be discussing items for consideration in the revision and update of the 2011 Regional Water Plan.
Here are the LAKE videos of their June meeting and here is the announcement for their July meeting; the LAKE videos for that last one will be available soon.
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