Board meetings are open to the public.
Board members are listed in
www.wwals.net.
Draft Agenda
WWALS Board of Directors
7:00 PM Wednesday May 14 2014
at the Gaskins Forest Education Center,
3359 Moore Sawmill Rd,
Alapaha, GA 31622
Gate opens at 6PM.
- Call to Order, Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Heather Brasell may say a few words about the Gaskins Forest Education Center.
- Agenda Review: Additions and Changes
- Review and Approval of Minutes
- Past Meetings and Events Continue reading
Update 2025-09-21: Graphs from water.noaa.gov.
Related to the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
and the
double USACE flooding study presentation tonight in Valdosta,
here are river level charts
upstream and down on the Little River,
Okapilco Creek, and the Withlacoochee River
related to a new USGS flood-tracking chart.
In the example charts on the right, you can see the Little River peaked days ago at Tifton and yesterday at Hahira.
The Withlacoochee River peaked yesterday at US 41. while downstream it’s going up at US 84, and barely starting up at Pinetta (click on the above chart example for the rest). Right now you can see all that in the charts below. If this works, you’ll see something different later, because you’ll see current charts whenever you refresh this page.
See also interactive map.
Update 2016-05-31: See sea level gage reports.
Update 2016-04-27: graphs from water.weather.gov and some WRWT Safe Water Levels.
Update 2014-11-04: Simplified gage formatting.
Update 2014-11-03: That works, and see also Alapaha River water levels.
-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/
Funds are available for farmers, ranchers, and forest owners
to help clean up two creeks in WWALS watersheds:
Deep Creek in Turner County, a tributary of the Alapaha River,
and Piscola Creek in Thomas and Brooks Counties, a tributary
of the Withlacoochee River.
The deadline for applications is May 16th.
WCTV via AP 5 April 2104, Georgia to Clean Up Waterways, Continue reading
Received today. -jsq
Good afternoon Mr. Quarterman,
As requested, the date for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Continue readingpresentation will be on May 6th to Mayor/Council at the work session which begins at 5:30 pm. The City will also have a meeting with the residents and businesses in the USACE project / study area that same night at 6:30 pm at the City Hall Annex – Multipurpose Room.
An interesting flyer pointed out by Emily Davenport,
Storm Water Utilities Director, City of Valdosta.
It has many useful
contacts on the front,
and
tips on the back (don’t walk or drive through flood waters)
but the most useful part is
inside,
where the flood-tracking chart is, in
Flood-tracking chart for the Withlacoochee and Little River Basins in south-central Georgia and northern Florida,
2014, by Gotvald, Anthony J.; McCallum, Brian E.; Painter, Jaime A.,
USGS General Information Product: 155.
Here are the gages mentioned in the chart, with links to the live USGS FloodTracking pages, Continue reading
WWALS will have a table at Earth Day today, 1PM in the Magnolia Room,
University Center, VSU.
That’s on the east side of Patterson Street,
just south of Brookwood Drive from Drexel Park.
-jsq
What
they told FERC today
was more subtle than just “avoid our area”, but after
the Sabal Trail methane pipeline avoid
karst limestone, any unconfined areas of our Floridan aquifer,
caves, springs, wetlands, drilling under rivers, blasting,
or using groundwater for testing pipes or disposing of it afterwards,
where can that pipeline go?
The Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) covers the Florida parts of WWALS’ watersheds, and our Withlacoochee River is named in the SRWMD comments. Unlike Georgia’s Suwannee-Satilla Water management District, SRWMD has state funding and staff that produced some very interesting comments.
This is the first I’ve heard of this point about source and disposal of testing water: Continue reading
This billboard has already been spotted on Bemiss Road in Valdosta.
Please join us at 7:30 AM Saturday 19 April 2014 on the Withlacoochee River between Valdosta and Quitman, to put in at Old Quitman Road on the Brooks County side (just south of US 84) and paddle past where the proposed Sabal Trail methane pipeline would cross the Withlacoochee River, Continue reading
Update 9PM 16 April 2014: Cancelled due to flood-stage water levels in the Withlacoochee River, with more rain expected Friday. To be rescheduled.
7:30 AM Saturday 19 April 2014 on the Withlacoochee River
between Valdosta and Quitman,
put in at Old Quitman Road on the Brooks County side (just south of US 84):
Paddle past where the proposed Sabal Trail methane pipeline
would cross the Withlacoochee River, digging into our fragile
karst limestone, above our drinking-water Floridan Aquifer.
This is a joint event of Continue reading
The BIG Little River Paddle Event will take place this Saturday rain or shine, but may be delayed if there is thunder or lightning.
You can register online or at the event.