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Draft Agenda (revised again 2015-04-06)
WWALS Board
7:30 PM Wed. 8 April 2015
IHOP Adel, GA
For remote attendees:
Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1212
Meeting ID: 974-054-025
Tag Archives: John S. Quarterman
South Georgia pipeline plan fuels fight –AJC
Atlanta is surrounded by pipelines, says the AJC reporter and photographer who came to to Dougherty, Colquitt, and Lowndes Counties in February.
Dan Chapman, AJC, 3 April 2015, South Georgia pipeline plan fuels fight,
Valdosta — Southwest Georgia is roiling mad over a proposed gas pipeline to Florida that virtually nobody in Atlanta, except Ted Turner, has heard about.
Electric Light & Power has more of the text: Continue reading
Hamilton and Madison: both WWALS Florida Counties passed anti-fracking resolutions
We’ve already seen Hamilton County’s RESOLUTION 2015-02 of 3 March 2015. Madison County followed 11 March 2015, as reported by Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson for Our Santa Fe River, The Commissioners of Madison County—THEY ROCK!!
This morning the Commissioners of Madison County concluded their business by unanimously signing a resolution to ban fracking and to support the bills in Tallahassee which do that. County Attorney Tommy Reeves was johnny-on-the-spot ready with the resolution so there was no delay there.
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Don’t risk river for foreign oil sales –Clay Montague
Yes, it seems like robbery, and no, we don’t have to tolerate any of this.
Satilla Riverkeeper’s board member Clay Montague wrote in the Camden County Tribune & Georgian 26 March 2015, Don’t risk river for foreign oil sales,
Dear Editor,
A fuel pipeline across the Satilla River is a danger to our county. Imagine a broken pipe spilling fuel into the Satilla for just one day.
Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline would transport 167,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products to Jacksonville, Fla. It will likely cross the Satilla about a mile downstream of Burnt Fort. The river is tidal there. Any spill will quickly head both directions, spreading fuel into swamps and marshes, killing fish and trees, and reach the beaches of Cumberland and Jekyll.
How much is 167,000 barrels? Continue reading
Historic solar financing bill started in GA PSC more than a year ago
Friday the Georgia Senate unanimously voted for a solar financing bill, and WWALS helped with that historic Georgia turn to the sun for power, which will conserve our waters, including helping fight off invading pipelines.
Back in June 2013,
Garry Gentry read to the Georgia Public Service Commission the WWALS letter about water and solar power (I also spoke), contributing to the historic GA PSC decision that July to require Georgia Power to add 525 MW of solar power, approximately doubling its request.
A decision that catapulted Georgia in one year Continue reading
Vallotton Farms upstream from Withlacoochee Sinks
Update 2017-09-13: The Lowndes County Commissioners surprisingly agreed to rezone “backwards” to Estate A gricultural (E-A) at their Regular Session of 14 April 2015.
A historic dairy farm wants to go back to the most agricultural zoning,
upstream on Cherry Creek from the
Cherry Creek Sink that leaks into the
Floridan Aquifer.
Vallotton Farms (both the part outlined in red
that appears to be the subject of the rezoning and the bigger part west of Bemiss Road) includes quite a bit of Cherry Creek itself.
Agriculture is probably better than other likely uses in such a location. Continue reading
Summary judgement sought by Sabal Trail pipeline company in Leesburg, GA
Come to the courthouse Leesburg, GA Tuesday at 11:30 AM or write a letter, if you want help stop the unnecessary, destructive, and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Remember last July when
landowners countersued a Houston pipeline company in Leesburg, Georgia?
When the judge refused to grant any judgement for the pipeline,
while
protesters from as far as nine hours away watched attentively?
WALB TV
covered the hearing
and
three newspapers carried
the WWALS op-ed that followed.
This Tuesday morning the same pipeline company will be back asking for a summary judgment for eminent domain against the same landowners.
If you can’t come in person, for letters here is contact information Continue reading
Videos: Valdosta Wastewater meeting with slides 2015-03-17
Calls from Atlanta and from downstream in Florida about the
three Valdosta wastewater overflows in February prompted WWALS as the local watershed organization to contact
the City of Valdosta about organizing a presentation to the interested parties.
Valdosta presented less than two weeks later, and brought their entire hierarchy related to this issue, from the mayor on down. Plus Lowndes County, which isn’t even responsible for Valdosta’s wastewater, was represented by their Chairman and a Commissioner.
In
Valdosta’s slides and the LAKE videos of that meeting of Tuesday 17 March 2015,
you can see many questions were answered, but some are still open. Continue reading
Two Hamilton County businesses donate prizes for logo contest –Jasper News
The local newspaper put a Hamilton County spin on the
Alapaha River Water Trail logo contest
PR, printed all three pictures, and ran it on most of full page.
Valdosta CEO also carried the PR 18 March 2015.
WWALS thanks all the logo prize donors, all the sponsors of the Alapaha River Water Trail, the teachers, and especially the student contestants.
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How many Valdosta overflows into Knights Creek and the Alapaha River watershed?
And how many into Dukes Bay Canal, which also flows into Mud Creek,
to the Alapahoochee River, to the Alapaha River, to the Suwannee River, to the Gulf?
It’s great the Valdosta City Council Thursday will
consider more fixes to wastewater problems in the Withlacoochee River watershed.
But what is Valdosta doing about problems in the Alapaha River watershed?
The three Valdosta overflows into the Alapaha River watershed in February 2015 weren’t the first. How many others have there been?
This report is from 19 March 2014: Continue reading