A paddle so brief we went past and had to float back
down the Withlacoochee River
to
where the Sabal Trail pipeline proposes to cross.
Winnie Wright of WCTV interviewed us at the US 84 bridge median while we were preparing to put in; don’t know if it aired.
Update 2015-08-28: WCTV story online.
See previous post for pictures of the put-in. It has everything: steep rocks, thorny Smilax vines, poison ivy, and wasp stings! Yes, this is Continue reading
Rescheduled from July,
WWALS Ambassador
Dave Hetzel will speak about the
Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT), which is
now looking to place signs and reprint brochures,
and the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WRWT),
whose Committee is looking for more members,
at the
Southern Georgia Regional Commission Council
meeting September 24th in Pearson, Georgia.
When: 11AM Thursday September 24th, 2015
Where: Continue reading
A very brief paddle (or walk, depending on water level) a few hundred
feet up the Withlacoochee River from US 84 to see where the Sabal Trail
pipeline proposes to cross. Facebook event.
When: 10AM, Friday,
August 28th 2015
Where: Meet in the parking lot at
Agri-Supply
2825 US Hwy 84W
Valdosta, GA 31601
We will carpool from there to US 84 and to where we will leave most of the vehicles.
Fallback: Continue reading
Halfway between Quitman and Valdosta, the Withlacoochee River
forms the border between
Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia.
Parking on the median on the east, Lowndes County, side, you can climb down the highway rocks and down a creek bed to the river. Continue reading
For more pictures and a video, see other post.
Adding
a video from the Arkansas River pipeline geyser,
another
Miami
paper picked up
last week’s Florida Bulldog story.
Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, 17 August 2015, Scott backs environmentally dubious pipeline from firm he invested in, Continue reading
Add that many WWALS members, some pictured here on the Suwannee River
at the proposed Sabal Trail crossing, live in Florida,
and this article from that same day is a good summary of the situation a week ago.
It was also picked up by
Bakken.com, “Powered by Shale Plays Media”.
Christopher Curry, Ocala StarBanner, 15 August 2015, Georgia-based group hopes to block natural gas pipeline, Continue reading
Federal disclosure laws require revealing some information Florida’s
blind trust law supposedly hides, and there are other cracks
in that state law that let a reporter see some of what’s in
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s blind trust, including last year
that he owned stock in Spectra Energy and its subsidiary DCP Midstream Partners LP,
as well as in Williams Co. and a flock of other pipeline and fossil fuel companies.
Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org, 19 August 2015, You don’t need X-ray vision to see through Gov. Rick Scott’s blind trust, Continue reading
Also boating, deadfalls, steam engine, and rapids. Diane Shearer presented slides about the Alapaha River of her homeland, 31 March 2012 at Georgia River Network Weekend for Rivers, and said:
Right there at Alapaha, where it’s been clearcut behind it. This is one of the main problems of the river: there used to be nothing on that shore there but huge cypress trees and tupelo trees, and that’s almost gone everywhere. And that’s one of the great dangers to this river, is agricultural runoff, the fact that people can suck all the water out of it they want to, for irrigation and those sorts of things.
The video starts Continue reading
According to GA-DNR, 17 August 2015,
The Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Council will meet on Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:00am in the meeting room of
Aniston’s Restaurant, located at 1404 W. Baker Highway, Douglas, GA. Registration begins at 9:30am. The Council will be hearing presentations on surface water supply and agricultural water-use forecasting. The Council will also be discussing items for consideration in the revision and update of the 2011 Regional Water Plan.
Here are the LAKE videos of their June meeting and here is the announcement for their July meeting; the LAKE videos for that last one will be available soon.
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