Come help us remove some deadfalls that are impeding canoe and kayak paddling. There are probably also new ones after Hurricane Idalia.
Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it. Or a handsaw, or sawzall.
But you do not have to use any kind of saw to join us.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 1 PM, Saturday, October 14, 2023
Put In: Langdale Park Boat Ramp, 3781 N. Valdosta Rd., Valdosta, GA 31602.
GPS: 30.88747, -83.32395
Continue readingUpdate 2023-09-12: Langdale Park to Sugar Creek Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-10-14.
Cancelled on account of the Withlacoochee River is still too high after Hurricane Idalia, and our chainsaws don’t work underwater, the Langdale Park to Sugar Creek Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River, 2023-09-09.
![[FB: Cancelled due to river flood levels after Hurricane Idalia]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-09-09--langdale-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-river/fbmanycancelled.jpg)
FB: Cancelled due to river flood levels after Hurricane Idalia
We will reschedule; new date to be announced.
The US 41 Withlacoochee River Gauge currently reads 122.36 feet. Our WWALS paddle recommendations are: Highest safe 12.7 feet, 123′ NAVD. Lowest boatable 5.7 feet, 116′ NAVD. And at the current level, the target deadfalls are about six feet underwater.
Valdosta US 41 (North Valdosta Road) Withlacoochee River Gauge
More: For more WWALS outings and events as they are posted, see the WWALS outings web page, https://wwals.net/outings/. WWALS members also get an upcoming list in the Tannin Times newsletter.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can help with clean,
swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile
Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations
Cancelled on account of Withlacoochee River in flood after Hurricane Idalia, and our chainsaws don’t work underwater, the Re-reschedule Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-09-02.
![[FB: Cancelled due to river flood levels after Hurricane Idalia]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-09-02--re-reschedule-retry-sugar-creek-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup/fbmanycancelled.jpg)
FB: Cancelled due to river flood levels after Hurricane Idalia
We will reschedule; new date to be announced.
The US 41 Withlacoochee River Gauge currently reads 124.42 feet. Our WWALS paddle recommendations are: Highest safe 12.7 feet, 123′ NAVD. Lowest boatable 5.7 feet, 116′ NAVD. And at the current level, the target deadfall is about eight feet underwater.
Valdosta US 41 (North Valdosta Road) Withlacoochee River Gauge
More: For more WWALS outings and events as they are posted, see the WWALS outings web page, https://wwals.net/outings/. WWALS members also get an upcoming list in the Tannin Times newsletter.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can help with clean,
swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile
Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations
I caught the Lowndes County Litter Crew on site, at Folsom Bridge Landing, on the Little River west of Hahira on GA 122, on the WWALS Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
![[Lowndes County Litter Crew and beach deadfalls, Folsom Bridge Landing, Little River @ GA 122]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-23--folsom-bridge-landing-jlh-beach-lowndes-county-litter-crew/many.jpg)
Lowndes County Litter Crew and beach deadfalls, Folsom Bridge Landing, Little River @ GA 122
Earlier this year they won a Georgia statewide award. They pick up weekly at all the public river access points in Lowndes County, also on the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT). I thanked the litter crew for doing that.
And I thank Lowndes County Public Works for their longstanding agreement with WWALS that they will pick up bagged trash we leave at boat ramps after cleanups.
The Litter Crew was using their RV down towards the river. Continue reading
Update 2023-09-01: Cancelled: Re-reschedule Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-09-02.
Again hoping for cleaner river water, this time we are aiming at 9 AM, Saturday, September 2, 2023, to chainsaw one big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River, and maybe a few more between GA 133 and the Little River Confluence.
On this new date, we may also use a put-in closer to our main deadfall target. Bring a rope on at least one end of your boat for lowering it in there. Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it, but you do not have to saw to join us.
Our main target this time is one remaining big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 4 PM, Friday, September 2, 2023
Put In: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll go to the put-in from there.
Continue readingUpdate 2023-08-18: Re-reschedule Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-09-02.
Hoping for higher and cleaner river water, this time we are aiming at 9 AM, Saturday, August 19, 2023, to chainsaw one big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133 on the Withlacoochee River, and maybe a few more between GA 133 and the Little River Confluence.
For our original date, the river level was two feet below our recommended level of 116′ NAVD88, and Valdosta had just reported very high E. coli in that stretch.
On this new date of August 19th, we may also use a put-in closer to our main deadfall target. Bring a rope on at least one end of your boat for lowering it in there. Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it, but you do not have to saw to join us.
Our main target this time is one remaining big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 4 PM, Friday, August 19, 2023
Put In: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll go to the put-in from there.
![[Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30; Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16; Reschedule Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-08-19]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-19--reschedule-retry-sugar-creek-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup/many.jpg)
Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30;
Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16;
Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee
River 2023-08-19
Update 2023-09-07: Cancelled: Langdale Park to Sugar Creek Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River, 2023-09-09.
Come help us remove some deadfalls that are impeding canoe and kayak paddling.
Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it.
But you do not have to use a saw to join us.
When: Gather 9 AM, launch 9:30 AM, end 1 PM, Saturday, September 9, 2023
Put In: Langdale Park Boat Ramp, 3781 N. Valdosta Rd., Valdosta, GA 31602,
GPS: 30.88747, -83.32395
![[Easy and hard deadfalls 2021-05-15]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-09-09--langdale-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-river/many.jpg)
Easy and hard deadfalls,
2021-05-15
Come help clean up the Withlacoochee River behind the Valdosta YMCA and onwards to the Little River Confluence, then upstream on the Little River to Troupville Boat Ramp. Bring a chainsaw if you really know how to use it, but you do not have to saw to join us.
Our main target this time is one remaining big deadfall between I-75 and GA 133.
When: Gather 1 PM, launch 1:30 PM, end 6 PM, Thursday, August 3, 2023
Put In: Meet at the back of the Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602 and we’ll put in at the railroad tracks.
![[Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30; Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16; Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-08-03]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-03--retry-sugar-creek-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup/many.jpg)
Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30;
Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16;
Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-08-03
We are rescheduling this Saturday’s chainsaw cleanup, due to water level too high and more rainfall predicted all week causing the Withlacoochee River to stay high.
We are merging it with the other cleanup on the same stretch of the river:
Sugar Creek to Troupville, Withlacoochee River Cleanup 2023-07-22.
Russell Allen McBride will lead the regular cleanup,
and Phil Hubbard will lead the chainsaw cleanup.
The groups of paddlers will probably proceed at different speeds.
See:
https://wwals.net/?p=62071
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/614883607025723
Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/withlacoochee-alapaha-suwannee-rivers-wwals-outings/events/293624535/
The Skipper Bridge gauge has predictions of water levels. Which show Continue reading
The second Suwannee River Chainsaw Cleanup went well. Got a little hot in the middle, and rained towards the end.
![[Chainsawing deadfalls, Suwannee River 2023-06-10]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-06-10--suwannee-chainsaw-pictures/many.jpg)
Chainsawing deadfalls, Suwannee River 2023-06-10
But the rain came only after we cleared four deadfalls above Fargo Ramp and Reeves Landing: Continue reading
![[A deadfall 2021-05-15]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-10-14--langdale-sugar-creek-chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-river/fbmany.jpg)
![[FB: Crowe Deadfall 2022-07-30; Riverhill Drive Deadfall 2022-10-16; Reschedule Retry Sugar Creek to Troupville Chainsaw Cleanup, Withlacoochee River 2023-09-02]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-09-02--re-reschedule-retry-sugar-creek-troupville-chainsaw-cleanup/fbmany.jpg)
![[Gauges, target deadfall]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-06-24--chainsaw-cleanup-withlacoochee-rescheduled/many.jpg)