Previously I promised an update on the lack of trash cans in the parking lot on St. Augustine Road at Hightower Creek that resulted in litter.
The short version is in https://seeclickfix.com/issues/13703334: Continue reading
Previously I promised an update on the lack of trash cans in the parking lot on St. Augustine Road at Hightower Creek that resulted in litter.
The short version is in https://seeclickfix.com/issues/13703334: Continue reading
Ken Sulak, retired from USGS, is a bubbling spring of information about old bridges and ferries in Florida. Here’s what he sent recently about three Withlacoochee River bridges: a railroad bridge and two road bridges.
EWJ RR Pillar and Lee Bowstring Bridge Lally column; Photos: Ken Sulak
You can see two of them on the WWALS paddle from Allen Ramp on the Withlacoochee River to Suwannee River State Park, 2023-02-04. Continue reading
Update 2022-11-30: Parking lot litter Click ‘n’ Fix closed without cleanup 2022-11-21.
This happened at the bottom of the parking lot on St. Augustine Road next to Hightower Creek. The same parking lot we previously reported as a good example, upstream from Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River.
Yet they never put out trash cans, and this is what results.
Bobby Mckenzie sent these pictures August 30, 2022, with this explanation:
Obviously there is no excuse for this woman’s actions. But she walk to look for a trash can and didn’t find one. Then she threw it in the mess that was already there.
Initially the litter bug looked for a trash can.
Just as guilty of allowing this to happen are the business/property owners, the Public Works Director, Assistant City Manager and City Marshalls for failing to do their part.
The business not complying with the existing City Ordinance, the City Marshalls REFUSING to enforce that very City Ordinance
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I didn’t know there was a Hahira Veterans Day Parade.
Turns out that’s because there wasn’t one since the 1950s, until Friday. WWALS was invited to participate, so we did.
Hahira Veterans Day Parade, WWALS Booth, Inside
Among the many WWALS members who are veterans, Vanessa and Nick Kroening rode in the parade with their children Jonah and Primrose. Continue reading
Update 2022-11-13: Pictures: Hahira Veterans Day Parade 2022-11-11.
WWALS was invited to participate in the annual Hahira Veterans Day Parade. Some WWALS veterans will be in the parade; others are invited to help at the WWALS booth.
All WWALS members are also invited to help at the booth.
When: Gather 8 AM, launch 10 AM, end 11 AM, Friday, November 11, 2022
Put In: Downtown Hahira, between the Little and Withlacoochee Rivers, on the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
Event: facebook,
WWALS at Hahira Veterans Day Parade
Update 2022-11-07: a few more dam pictures in here: Troupville River Park Scouting 2022-07-02.
About halfway between Troupville Boat Ramp and the Troup Bridge (the GA 133 Little River Bridge), are these remains of an old dam.
Phillip Williams pointed this out some time back.
Maybe Don Davis can turn up some records of this dam.
Timbers seen from downstream, 11:05:42, 30.8519297, -83.3472014
in the WWALS Map of the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
Bridge pilings are vertical, not horizontal.
Horizontal timbers would make sense to hold a dam in place. Right next to Troupville would be a good place for a mill, which would need a dam. Continue reading
Update 2022-10-26: WWALS response to opposition comments by Eagle LNG about small, inland LNG 2022-10-17.
Today WWALS and seven other organizations rebutted the opposition comments of Pivotal LNG, LLC to the WWALS, et al. petition to FERC for Rulemaking on small, inland, LNG facilities.
If you also want to intervene or comment, here’s how:
https://wwals.net/?p=59062#tocomment.
Yes, the comment deadline has passed, but a FERC attorney told me the Commission usually considers comments filed later.
Thanks to all the co-signers on today’s response: LEAD Agency, Inc., Kissimmee Waterkeeper, Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Peace+Myakka Waterkeeper, Collier County Waterkeeper, Three Rivers Waterkeepers, and Food and Water Watch.
Thanks to all the previous commenters, especially Floridians Against Dirty Energy (FADE), League of Women Voters, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Florida Springs Council, Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, Waterkeepers Chesapeake, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper, Anacostia Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, Assateague Coastal Trust, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, and others too numerous to list here.
Thanks to Maxine Connor for rustling up many of those organizations.
Thanks as always to Cecile Scofield, doggedly pursuing LNG for decades now.
Filed with FERC 2022-10-04 12:40:32 PM as Accession Number: 20221004-5116, “Response to Opposition Comments of Pivotal LNG, LLC, by WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc., et al., under RM22-21.”
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Update 2022-12-08: Unacceptable risk to mine near the Okefenokee Swamp –U.S. Interior Secretary Haaland 2022-12-07.
Update 2022-10-06: GA-DNR Board does not discuss mining near Okefenokee Swamp 2022-09-27.
Last Friday Interior Secretary Deb Haaland toured to Okefenokee Swamp, along with Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff.
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Update 2022-10-04: WWALS response to FERC on opposition comments of Pivotal LNG about small, inland LNG Rulemaking 2022-10-04.
Here’s how you can comment or intervene on the FERC Rulemaking on small inland LNG export facilities:
https://wwals.net/?p=59062#tocomment
It’s easy to comment or intervene, so you can do it by the deadline of September 20, 2022. Public Citizen and Food and Water Watch have already intervened. We guess they are preparing comments to convince the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to resume the responsibility it abdicated in 2015, of environmental oversight of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export facilities even when are not located where they can directly load LNG onto ocean-going tanker ships. Instead, those inland facilities send highly compressed and explosive LNG in trucks and train cars down public highways past schools, business, churches, and homes, through counties none of which have adequate emergency plans. And where-ever that gas eventually gets burned, in Europe, Caribbean, or Asia, it adds to the atmosphere more methane, a worse greenhouse gas than CO2, cooking the planet and raising sea levels. You are affected, even if you do not have an LNG export operation near you.
LNG tanker truck on I-75 turning onto I-10 for Jacksonville, LNG export map by WWALS
If you comment or intervene, we will invite you to join us and our co-signers in the series of zoom meetings we’re having with the FERC Office of Public Participation (OPP). You can help find out what OPP is actually doing. At least they’re asking for Continue reading
Back in 2019, after one final calibration with Our Santa Fe River, WWALS asked WATERKEEPR® Alliance to add the Santa Fe River Basin to the territory of Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®. They approved that request on September 26, 2019. Since then, Suwannee Riverkeeper territory has included the entire Suwannee River Basin and Estuary.
Request letter and expanded territory approved 2019-09-26
Apparently we never published this addition, and lately we’ve needed to refer to it. So here is the request that WKA approved. Plus a current map of the entire Basin and Estuary. Continue reading