Update 2021-03-17:
Now with
Ray City added 2021-03-15
and
Lakeland added 2021-03-17.
Schedules of testing, with permissable levels: these are in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) wastewater
permits,
so we need to see those permits.
You’d think they’d be on the EPA or GA-EPD website, but….
The U.S. EPA has delegated NPDES permitting to Georgia.
You can get draft wastewater permits right off
the GA-EPD website,
but to get the actual current approved permits, you must get GA-EPD
to send them to you.
I found this out from Audra Dickson, Wastewater Regulatory Program Manager.
I asked her for permits for half a dozen cities and one county,
and the next day Alyssa Thomson, Environmental Specialist,
Wastewater Regulatory Program, Municipal Permitting Unit,
sent them via email.
Emmett Carlisle, from Gainesville, Florida, just outside
the Suwannee River Basin,
sang “Suwannee Harmony,” and won a prize for Best Florida Folk,
at the
First Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest,
Saturday, June 23, 2018, at the Salty Snapper, Valdosta, GA.
Emmett Carlisle
(Bret Wagenhorst)
As he sang,
“just like the river, together we flow.”
Here’s an update on the draft brochures for
both WWALS Water Trails,
after
the recent meeting of the WWALS Water Trails Committee.
We could still use more pictures.
Please email pictures to wwalswatershed@gmail.com.
Please say who took each picture, when, where, and of what.
High resolution, please.
If you want to join the WWALS
Trails Committee to help continue organizing this work,
actually editing the documents shown below,
you must be
a WWALS member and
apply.
Hollin Gammage, from McMinnville, Tennessee, outside
the Suwannee River Basin,
sang “Little River,” and won a prize for Best Americana,
at the
First Annual Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest,
Saturday, June 23, 2018, at the Salty Snapper, Valdosta, GA.
Hollin Gammage (photo by Bret Wagenhorst)
I think we’ve all been “Half crazy til I hit the water.”
After only four years, we’re almost finished with both WWALS Water Trails!
You can help get them done.
The new Chair of the WWALS Trails Committee, Dan Phillips, has called a meeting
to work on one of the final steps: designing printed brochures.
Anyone can attend, and anyone can send in pictures or suggestions.
Please email pictures to wwalswatershed@gmail.com.
Please say who took each picture, when, where, and of what.
High resolution, please.
When:
2:30-5PM, Sunday, 19 August 2018
Where:
Community Hall 2,
South Georgia Regional Library,
2906 Julia Dr, Valdosta, GA 31602
By phone:
Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3580
Meeting ID: 855-676
If you want to join the
WWALS
Trails Committee to help continue organizing this work,
actually editing the documents shown below,
you must be Continue reading →
You’ve seen who
won the eleven awards.
Now here are the rest of the paddlers in the
6th Annual BIG Little River Paddle Race,
from more counties, states, and watersheds than ever before.
Also more Solo Female Kayaks than Solo Male Kayaks,
and several whole families of paddlers.
“Finalists will play, and will be judged. The prizes will be awarded, and of course the acknowledgment of the sponsors.”
Plus a buffet of snacks prepared by the Salty Snapper,
including some vegetarian,
all for $10 in advance online,
and there will be a silent auction and kayak raffle tickets.
Gretchen Quarterman was on the radio with Steve Nichols, WVGA 105.9FM
(I was scheduled, but the flu said otherwise; I’m better now).
Gretchen said you don’t need to write a song, just come listen
to the finals this Saturday afternoon, with
judges
Cindy Bear from Jacksonville,
Dan Crews from Live Oak, and
J.J. Rolle from Valdosta
Plus the Outings Committee has organized a paddle 9AM Saturday morning
from Langdale Park to Sugar Creek Landing,
just across the railroad tracks from the Salty Snapper,
so you can paddle to the songwriting contest.
Steve Nichols remarked:
“As a kid, I used to go down that stretch of the river with my friends.
When I say as a kid, I was in high school in the early eighties.
It would be fun for me to do that trip as a nostalgic trip,
and going back and look at that beautiful stretch of river right there.”
Gretchen said the water is high so probably there will be no dragging,
and the river is different every time.
She showed the metal Sheboggy Boat Ramp signs Phil made to sell
so people maybe won’t keep stealing them off the GDOT signposts
for their man cave or woman cave.
Videos: Gretchen Quarterman about Songwriting Contest on Steve Nichols radio 105.9FM WVGA 2018-06-18
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS).
I’ll be on the radio Friday morning; stay tuned for a post about that.
Tomorrow morning, 8:30AM, Tuesday, June 19, 2018,
I’ll be on the radio with Steve Nichols, 105.9FM,
talking about the
Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
coming up 1-5PM, this Saturday, June 23, 2018 at the Salty Snapper, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602.
When Gretchen was on his show last month,
he said he wanted to hear more, so tomorrow morning it is.
Tifton spilled twice into the New River watershed,
36,000 gallons and 5,400 gallons,
both into the New River watershed upstream of the Withlacoochee and the Suwannee Rivers,
apparently both spills during or after Tropical Storm Alberto,
and there was no public notice until two weeks later.
Stuart Taylor, Tifton Gazette, June 11, 2018,
36,000 gallon raw sewage spill enters drainage system,
cited as source Thomas Coker, “plant manager with ESG Operations,”
who is also listed by the City of Tifton as Wastewater Superintendent.
I called him to clarify some details.
Here is information about the two spills, both related to Tropical Storm Alberto:
36,000 gallons, Wednesday, May 30 through Thursday, June 7, 2018,
from 315 E. 20th Street, into Tifton’s stormwater system, after 2 inches of rain.
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