Delivered to the Lowndes County Commission Tuesday 12 April 2016 on paper and then by email
(PDF, plus
1-page Suwannee County, FL request to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and
28-page
WWALS invitation to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers),
following up from two previous addresses to the same Commission.
See also the Carter Way item in that same Commission meeting, also related to Sabal Trail. Continue reading
The FERC FEIS isn’t a permit, the Army Corps hasn’t issued a permit, GA-EPD is still considering an air quality permit for the Albany, GA air compressor, and it’s still possible to stop the GA-DNR easements for drilling under Georgia rivers including the Withlacoochee and Okapilco Creek. This is all regardless of whether FDEP issues its drilling permit for the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers. You can still help stop this invasion by the “Sinkhole Trail” of our local lands, water, and air.
Among the press recently by Politico, Law360, Natural Gas Intelligence, the Suwannee Democrat, the Ocala StarBanner, the Palm Beach Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Valdosta Today, and others, is this long local piece. Joe Adgie, Valdosta Daily Times, 20 December 2015, EPA reverses stand on impact pipeline would have on aquifer,
In addition, according to FERC, Sabal completed analysis of the subsurfaces where the pipeline is proposed.
That’s what FERC’s announcement of its Final Environmental Impact Statment (FEIS) said, but where is the LiDAR, as Continue reading
As Commissioner Marshall said, “it’s been a long time coming”, but Tuesday the Lowndes County Commission approved $24,000 to buy 4.35 acres from Acree Investments for a boat ramp on the Alapaha River just north of US 84. Details are on the LAKE blog.
Come celebrate with us
10AM tomorrow Saturday 12 December 2015 at Grand Bay,
which is also on the
Alapaha River Water Trail.
Commissioners told Gretchen as she was thanking each of them afterwards that they used the WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail map to determine there was no other boat ramp on the Alapaha River in Lowndes County, the closest being east of Lakeland and west of Statenville.
Of course there are other boat ramps in Lowndes County, but they are on the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
Thanks to Dr. Acree for agreeing to sell for a reasonable price, and to the Lowndes County Commissioners for agreeing to buy this land for the Alapaha River boat ramp and park in February 2013.
-jsq
Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter says the Naylor Boat Ramp is
on schedule for completion this fall, provided the Georgia Department
of Natural Resources returns the appropriate permits.
At last night’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Sesssion, WWALS president John S. Quarterman displayed the Alapaha River Water Trail brochures, pointing out the Naylor Boat Ramp on the map. He, ok, I, asked what was the status of that project that Lowndes County is building with SPLOST funds.
Nobody answered in the public meeting, but afterwards Continue reading
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
WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman invited everyone to discuss river etiquette
and private property and to see the prizes awarded to the high school logo contest winners at the
Alapaha River Water Trail Conference tomorrow,
and to go on the
river outing afterwards.
She spoke in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard at the Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2015.
Here’s the video:
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Thanks to the Lowndes County Commission and staff, here’s a look
at what they’re planning for the new boat ramp and park on the
Alapaha River just north of US 84.
Below are videos of discussion about these plans
in several recent Commission meetings.
This boat ramp and park is already on the map for the
Alapaha River Water Trail,
and I have thanked the Commission for moving along to get it established;
see below. Continue reading
Delivered on paper to Commissioner Joyce E. Evans a week ago, and sent by email to all the Lowndes County Commissioners today, with attached PDF. -jsq
WWALS Watershed Coalition
3338 Country Club Road #L336
Valdosta, GA 31605
11 September 2014Re: Alapaha Water Trail
Dear Lowndes County Commissioners,
WWALS Watershed Coalition is implementing a small grant from Georgia River Network (GRN) to establish an Alapaha River Water Trail.
In addition, a grant application opportunity has come up that could result in funding to Lowndes County for related facilities, and perhaps to extend that Water Trail into a system of Blueways also including the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers. In addition to improving local quality of life, either or both could contribute to the economy of Lowndes County by bringing in boaters on the rivers who would buy locally, and providing features attractive to knowledge-based businesses and their employees. All at little or no cost to the county plus grant funding.
The GRN grant involves Continue reading
Letter from WWALS to Lowndes County Commission, signed Friday, mailed Saturday; the hearing is 5:30 PM today 12 February 2013, 327 North Ashley Street 2nd floor, Valdosta, GA.
Lowndes County Board of CommissionersContinue reading
327 North Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA 31601
WWALS Watershed Coalition
www.wwals.net
Dear Lowndes County Commissioners,