Update 2017-01-30:
- 2017-01-30: FL House Rep. Elizabeth Porter asks EPA to Valdosta wastewater
- 2017-01-28: Valdosta attempts to come clean about sewage, and how you can help
- 2017-01-26: SRWMD says FDEP has confirmed river contamination possibly from Valdosta sewage 2017-01-26
- 2017-01-26: Moultrie sewage spill into Ochlockonee River
- 2017-01-26: Tifton wastewater spill into the New River into Withlacoochee into Suwannee River.
Valdosta also didn’t tell the public all day after the spill stopped, and then posted something that’s flat not true.
I just called Valdosta WWTP Superintendent John Waite,
as it says to do on the city’s PR posted
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 5:09:00 PM,
Withlacoochee Plant Warranty Repairs Underway,
which says “The plant is under warranty and the repairs will be complete by end
of day Jan. 25 at no cost to the city.”
Meanwhile, the Valdosta Daily Times posted yesterday evening
City sewage spill stopped.
I asked Superintendent Waite when the spill stopped.
Answer: Continue reading