On the front page of the local newspaper: the Suwannee Riverkeeper float in the White Springs Christmas Parade. Thanks, Randy Madison and Jasper News!
![[The Suwannee Riverkeeper float included a canoe.]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-12-12--white-springs-parade-float-jasper-news/IMG_5060.jpg)
The Suwannee Riverkeeper float included a canoe.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
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No minced words on the front page of Hamilton County, Florida’s daily newspaper: “Insanity”!
The online title was more sedate, but the story accurately recorded some of the polite outrage of the citizens who spoke to FERC against the invading Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Among them were at least five WWALS members and many members of Our Santa Fe River.
Amber Vann, Suwannee Democrat, 7 October 2015, Locals speak out against gas pipeline,
One man, Rocky Stewart, explained Continue reading
Valdosta can’t blame this one on rain upstream: it fell directly
on Valdosta, and once again
the same Meadowbrook Drive neighborhood
that’s been getting doused in sewage since 2009 saw it surging out
of a manhole, after three other streets got it.
Valdosta says it reported all this to GA-EPD, but good luck finding it
(or anything else) on EPD’s website.
Once again Valdosta on its own website didn’t even say
which river Sugar Creek dumps into,
but Florida figured it out, and ain’t happy.
The Florida Department of Health advisory is findable, and news media
and SRWMD picked that up.
Maybe Valdosta’s ongoing force main project will fix these overflows:
bids were requested earlier that same month for more parts of that project.
Maybe Valdosta could try to explain itself better in its own press releases?
Valdosta News, 29 August 2015, Update: Overflows Stopped, Continue reading