Update 2016-04-03: Extra Withlacoochee outing by popular demand.
Coming up soon!
See the WWALS calendar for any more events already scheduled.
All these outings are in Georgia. Which is a switch, since Continue reading
What crosses Lee Street and Gornton Road heading to the
Withlacoochee River? 
One Mile Branch and Sugar Creek, but you wouldn’t know that
from Valdosta’s press releases.
Valdosta PR 27 October 2015, Grease Blockage Causes Small Sanitary Sewer Spill in City,
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2015, the City of Valdosta Utilities Department responded to a grease blockage that caused Continue reading
Patrick Kunes has opened the WWALS booth in Alapaha, Georgia, near the start of the
Alapaha River Water Trail in Berrien County.
Come on down for music, food, parade, beauty queen, and meet WWALS people!
If you are a WWALS member, please come to the booth and sit a spell and help introduce WWALS to the people.
When: 9AM to 5PM Saturday November 14, 2015
Where: 245 NE Railroad Street, Alapaha, GA
31.381532,-83.223416, just east of Main Street, US 129.
What: Alapaha Station Celebration.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
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The invading pipeline would pass within about one mile of Clyattville Elementary School
where it would cross
Clyatt Mill Creek and then Railroad Avenue, at about
30.680638, -83.326501.
This would be after crossing the Withlacoochee River from Brooks into Lowndes Counties just north of US 84, and before crossing Jumping Gulley Creek and the state line into Hamilton County Florida, where the hearing was held in Jennings for WWALS v. Sabal Trail & FDEP.
You can see the general route in the Cover Map. After crossing the Withlacoochee River, Sabal Trail would cross Martin Lane and Tiger Creek, then Continue reading
Update 2023-06-22: More Pictures: WWALS on The Rocks between Lakeland and Hotchkiss, Alapaha River 2015-07-11.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman of the
11 July 2015 WWALS outing on the Alapaha River.
Happy paddlers and an owl!
Lots more outings coming up, from the Little River to the Suwannee, the Alapaha again (continuing our exploration of the Alapaha River Water Trail), to Grand Bay, the Okefenokee Swamp, and of course the Withlacoochee River, where we went most recently last month.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
From Gretchen’s facebook album.
FERC requires state permits, including an air quality permit from GA-EPD: no permit, no pipeline. You can help stop Spectra Energy’s the Sabal “Sinkhole” Trail pipeline 6:30 PM tonight, 5 November 2015 at Albany Technical College, Kirkland Conference Center, 1704 S. Slappey Boulevard, Albany, GA 31701. There will be a press conference by the opposition about 5:45.
Gretchen Quarterman, WWALS Watershed Coalition and Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper, last night with the banner he had made for the occasion.
Here are Press release and other details.
You can oppose this unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous pipeline in many other ways, including supporting WWALS opposition to an FDEP permit to drill under the Suwannee River in Florida.
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You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Signs, no pipeline, new fallers, and a fine day on the Withlacoochee River
from
Langdale Park to the US 41 bridge: here are some pictures of
Kayaktivism, October 3rd 2015.
Thanks to Ashlie Marie Prain and others for organizing this event by the Valdosta State University (VSU) Anthropology Club, the VSU Sociology Club, and Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.), which was also cleanup for Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Beautiful (KLVB), and a WWALS Field Trip, plus Tom Hochschild was there for the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP), which, like WWALS, is an intervenor on FERC Sabal Trail Docket No. CP15-17.
Don’t forget to e-comment to FERC today! Today’s the deadline for e-comments about the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
Special thanks to Continue reading
At Albany Technical College, 6:30 PM 5 November 2015.
Here’s the
GA-EPD Press Release,
with links to the Public Notice, a Narrative, and the Draft Air Quality Permit. Continue reading
Board meetings are open to the public.
Draft Agenda
WWALS Board of Directors
7:30 PM Wednesday Oct 14 2015
IHOP, Adel, GABoard members are listed in www.wwals.net: Continue reading
“Water is our most precious commodity, not pipelines, not Sabal Trail,”, said
WWALS member
Alton Burns, and both
he and WWALS president
John S. Quarterman spoke twice, about safety, water, conflicts of interest, the Floridan Aquifer, lack of transparency, Okapilco Creek, the Withlacoochee River, and the Suwannee River, all of which Sabal Trail is trying to drill under.
Local landowners were the most blunt: the FERC process is
a farce
and
a hoax,
they said.
See for yourself in these
LAKE videos from Moultrie last night.
But it’s still important for you to come speak up, to be on the record, so the news media will hear, and so your neighbors will hear. The FERC meetings continue tonight in Valdosta and Continue reading
