It’s the annual WWALS Adopt-A-Stream cleanup, this time at GA 135
on the
Atkinson County side of the Alapaha River, plus if there’s time, the
Berrien County side.
When: 9AM Saturday September 26th 2015
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Water testing certification at Reed Bingham this Saturday 2015-01-10
Thanks to Margaret Tyson. See also PDF. -jsq
Georgia
Adopt-A-Stream
Chemical and
Bacterial
Certification
Workshop
Reed Bingham State Park
Saturday
January 10th, 2015
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.This is a registration only event.
Register by calling
GOLDEN TRIANGLE RC&D
at 229-723-3841 or
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Adopt-A-Stream bacterial and chemical monitoring workshops in Waycross
Bacterial Monitoring on Friday and Chemical Monitoring on Saturday
in Waycross, by
Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (AAS), Satilla Riverkeeper,
and other.
This is not a WWALS event, but everyone is invited. -jsq Continue reading
Test wells for arsenic –South Health District
More than three years after Janet McMahan
found toxic levels of arsenic in her well water in Ben Hill County,
more than half a year after
she told us about it
at a
WWALS water quality testing training,
and four months after
Erin Brokovich agreed it was a problem,
the Georgia Departnment of Health finally has sounded the alarm.
They still left out part of the story, though.
The Valdosta Daily Times carried the story in its paper Saturday edition, but apparenlty never put it online. WTXL’s story Friday by Jade Bulecza, UPDATE: South Georgians urged to test private wells due to arsenic risk, quoted Dr. Grow, head of our local eleven-county South Health District:
Continue readingLead, arsenic, and uranium in water causing cancer –Janet McMahan
Uranium? Yes, really: it comes out of granite rocks up deep water wells
in the Georgia Piedmont.
The other metals arsenic come from human energy,
industrial, and agricultural activities,
ranging from fenceposts to Plant Scherer,
dirtiest coal plant in the country, emitting mercury, some of which ends
up in the Alapaha River.
Here’s
video of Janet McMahan speaking about this:
Janet McMahan spoke to the group after the
Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing training
taught by Angela Bray and Richard Batten.
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 August 2012
Janet McMahan adds:
Continue readingAdopt-A-Stream water quality testing training with WWALS 2012-08-25
Students getting water from creek for Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing training.
Angela Bray of the Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC), assisted by Richard Battenn of SGRC and Al Browning, taught an Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing workshop Saturday 25 August 2012 in Valdosta.
Here’s a video playlist.
A few highlights:
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