Us south Georgia watershed groups have to stick together!
Pictured are Satilla Riverkeeper Ashby Nix, WWALS Watershed Coalition: President John S. Quarterman, Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman, Ambassador Dave Hetzel, in Perry, Georgia, 21 August 2014.
Thanks to workshop presenter Loren Moore Continue reading
Update 2019-10-03: More like 35 counties. See instead recently updated WWALS Counties and Cities.
Can you remember all 23 counties in the WWALS watersheds, and the thirty or more cities and towns? I can’t, so I made a new WWALS web page on WWALS Counties and Cities, with population comparisons and maps. Some of it may surprise you.
The Alapaha River starts way up in Turner County,
and runs right through Nashville in Berrien County,
Lakeland in Lanier County, Statenville in Echols County,
and near Jasper in Hamilton County, Florida.
These counties and cities are the core of the
Alapaha River Water Trail.
Come see the middle of that Trail this afternoon:
Alapaha River @ US 84: endpoint of Sunday’s WWALS Outing 24 August 2014. Continue reading
Chris Graham took this picture a week ago of the Alapaha River at
US 84, where tomorrow’s WWALS Outing will end up.
Come join us on this gem of a blackwater rural river!
We’re boating the central area of the in-progress
Alapaha River Trail, tomorrow afternoon,
Sunday, August 24st 2014.
Meet up at 1:30 at Hotchkiss Crossing on the Lanier County side.
We will drop the boats off, drive the end point at US 84, on a public right of way, where the road is gravel.
Get on water at 2:00.
We will pass by the location for the new Lowndes County boat ramp and public access point. This is a relatively short paddle, about 1.27 miles, but it could take as long as 2 hours if the water level stays low.
This event is FREE! All we ask is that Continue reading
That magic word “jobs” sucked up water from one of north Florida’s
most famous springs: Madison Blue Spring, very familiar to many people from south Georgia.
Will it do the same about a pipeline?
Joseph Trento wrote for DC Bureau 20 July 2009, Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: How Nestlé Got Millions and Millions of Dollars From a $230 Permit. Continue reading
Fracked methane would come from Pennsylvania across our Withlacoochee River twice to LNG export in Florida, and many other rivers and aquifers would have the same problem throughout North America, as would domestic natural gas users as LNG export drives prices up, and local and state taxpayers having to clean up after insufficiently-insured pipeline companies. All the named coastal arrows on this map from Williams’ Atlantic Sunrise project in Pennsylvania branch off from Williams Transco to LNG export operations:
A fourth Florida LNG export operation seeks approval,
this one explicitly wanting to use methane from the Sabal Trail Transmission
fracked methane pipeline.
It’s on the divide between our Suwannee River Basin and the
St Johns River Basin, where Jaxport is proposing to ship out liquid natural
gas from Jacksonville.
St Johns Riverkeeper and Our Santa Fe River beware.
The Sabal Trail pipeline itself was already proposed to cross three rivers in the Suwannee Basin: Continue reading
Bigger type than the rest of the page, and in the editorial column position:
Haley Hyatt, who took these pictures, noticed that about how the
Moultrie Observer
printed the
WWALS op-ed Friday 1 August 2014, as
“Much opposition”.
So that’s at least two newspapers so far, the other being the Ocala StarBanner. Continue reading
In the Tifton Gazette, WWALS receives Alapaha Water Trali grant,
27 July 2014,
from the
WWALS PR of 21 July 2014.
WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel found this, and I took the picture last night
at the first in-person Alapaha Water Trail Committee meeting.
So at least two newspapers carried the story. The other one was the Valdosta Daily Times, 22 July 2014, WWALS gets grant from river network, in which Matthew Woody added some detail beyond the press release. Continue reading
The Moultrie Observer printed
the WWALS op-ed Friday 1 August 2014;
that’s still not online.
But the Ocala StarBanner has it online, Sunday 3 August 2014,
Water, property rights over pipeline profits.
Several more newspapers are considering it.
-jsq
Chris Mericle’s introducation says this video:
shows some of the springs, sinkholes, and other karst features that lie in close proximity to the proposed Sabal Trail gas pipeline where it crosses the Withlacoochee River in Hamilton and Madison County, Florida.
Including active sinkholes right next to the proposed pipeline route. And a karst window a couple of hundred feet from the pipeline.
Here’s the video:
The video is about the part of the Withlacoochee River where Continue reading