In today’s Sunday April 10th 2016 Valdosta Daily Times:
The Georgia House on March 22nd by an unprecedented 34 ayes to 128 nays rejected easements for Sabal Trail
to drill our Withlacoochee and other Georgia Rivers. This was a historic victory by the Georgia Water Coalition, including Georgia Sierra Club, WWALS, Flint Riverkeeper, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, plus SpectraBusters, and thanks to all of you who called their state reps.
That same day, Continue reading
A rock field, many springs, and shoals add to the beautiful landscape
of one of the finest stretches of River you may ever paddle!
Mostly on the Withlacoochee River, plus just after Suwanoochee Spring,
we turn left up the Suwannee River to Suwannee River State Park (SRSP).
Will the chair still be there,
on top of the old bridge pier?
When: 7:30 AM, Saturday, June 4th 2016
facebook event,
meetup.
Duration: 13.3 miles about 7 hours
Put in: Florida Campsites Ramp
MILE 13.3, 2137 NW 47th St, Jasper, FL 32052
30.501128, -83.242411
Directions: Continue reading
Update 2016-04-05: Actually, force main and new WWTP on line by May.
Frances Adams asked:
I just want to know when will this be fixed, I can’t even drink my water for it having ecoli in it. Someone needs to do something now!!!
The two biggest pieces are scheduled to be finished this summer and next summer:
the force main project in July 2016, and the new Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant relocated uphill by August 2017.
Valdosta is spending upwards of $300 million to fix the problem.
As I point out every time I post about new spills, there are still open questions and, as your Waterkeeper® Affiliate for the upper Suwannee River and the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers, WWALS Watershed Coalition will keep after Valdosta until we get the answers. See also the slides and videos from the meeting Valdosta held for us a year ago about this.
Here’s what Valdosta’s Sewer System Improvements web page says today: Continue reading
Sent this morning to the Suwannee Board of County Commissioners. They meet 6PM tonight, 5 April 2016, at the Suwannee County Judicial Annex, 218 Parshley St. SW, Live Oak, FL, and Sabal Trail is on the agenda.
Dear Chairman Bashaw and Commissioners,
Thank you for coming to see with your own eyes at Suwannee River State Park and Falmouth Spring some of what Sabal Trail did not tell FERC. As you know, after that site visit, the Hamilton Board of County Commissioners sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inviting them to come see for themselves, as well.
Despite what Sabal Trail and FPL will tell you, pipelines are not inevitable.
As you may be aware, Continue reading
Sent 5 April 20156. PDF.
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Continue readingWondering why Valdosta is having an overflow problem? It was rain on Valdosta, and north of Valdosta.
Not so much northwest on the Little River, nor even west on Okapilco Creek: Continue reading
See you 9AM tomorrow morning April 3rd for the
WWALS Outing at
the 3,500 acre Ray’s Mill Pond,
which is open for boating 24/7; just put a dollar in the box.
In the evenings Monday thru Thursday, don’t park your boat on the pavement
because the restaurant is open then, and it’s very popular,
but no worries on a Sunday morning.
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
-jsq
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
View from boatramp
Deposit .00 Launch Fee Here
Launch Fee .00
No Boat Trailers on Paved Lot Thursday Thru Saturday 4PM til 10PM
Busy restaurant parking lot
Cat Creek flooding
Rays Mill Pond spillway
View from walkway
Update: 4610-foot explored cavern under McIntyre Spring.
Blue Spring between Quitman and Valdosta has been known since the settling of Brooks County, when it was used as a reference point in building roads starting in 1859. Here’s an early 20th century report, with a much later picture postcard (probably not the same building) and location map.
A Preliminary Report on the Underground Waters of Georgia, by S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, Continue reading
Sunday there was parking under the bridge, now that’s under water.
The intended put-in for
this Sunday’s Withlacoochee Outing,
is just downstream from here, so we’re rescheduling that one for
Ray’s Millpond,
875 Rays Mill Pond Rd., Ray City, GA 31645,
still 9AM March 20th 2016.
Directions: From Valdosta, north on Bemiss Road (GA 125) to Ray City, right on Jones St. to boat ramp.
It’s 14.75 feet, just below 15 foot flood at the Continue reading
Does FERC actually look at what counties and other people send it?
FERC made the figures illegible in its posting of
Dennis Price’s geology report
that Hamilton BOCC appended when it forwarded to FERC its
site visit request to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
This reminds me of when FERC lost half of Dougherty County’s Sabal Trail resolution and just happened to lose page 3 of Bill Kendall’s letter, the page about lack of need, false pretense, and duress. Does FERC actually care what anybody thinks, other than the industries it “regulates” while they pay all its costs?
FERC Filing 28 March 2016, Accession Number 20160328-0091, “Correspondence from Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton, FL to U.S. Army Corp of Engineers re the Environmental Geology report under CP15-17.” Continue reading