Update 2024-12-20: Langdale Park back open 2024-12-17.
On my way to collect some water quality samples, I looked in at Langdale Park towards the Withlacoochee River and Country Club Road at Three Mile Branch, both in Valdosta.
Nope, no driving in those places.
No doubt there are higher priorities for Lowndes County Public Works and Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA). Continue reading
The gate is open, but there is room for improvement on the access road.
![[Deadfalls on entry road, 2024:10:23 17:52:25, 30.8860860, -83.3192000]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2024-10-23--langdale-park-still-closed/20241023_175225.jpg)
Deadfalls on entry road, 2024:10:23 17:52:25, 30.8860860, -83.3192000
Those deadfalls from Hurricane Helene are not even halfway down to Langdale Park Boat Ramp.
I will mention them to Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks and Recreation Authority (VLPRA) and Lowndes County Public Works, but I doubt this park is high on their priority list. Continue reading
Langdale Park is back open to drive in, since Monday.
Join us at Langdale Park Boat Ramp on Saturday, Friday, October 20, 2023, for a boating cleanup.
Don’t worry: if you don’t have a boat or don’t want to use one, you can clean up on land.
You may recall that back on September 28th I thought I’d collect a water quality sample at Langdale Park, and I found downed trees all along the entrance road.
A week later, I checked again, and all that Hurricane Idalia debris was still there.
So I called Lowndes County Public Works. They agreed they did maintain Hyta Mederer Road, and they would open a work order. They asked if it was urgent, or would Monday do? I said Monday would be fine.
![[Thanks to Lowndes County Public Works for reopening Langdale Park]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/gretchen/2023-10-10--langdale-park/many.jpg)
Thanks to Lowndes County Public Works for reopening Langdale Park
And on Monday they got all the impediments off the road. Gretchen Quarterman tood these pictures Tuesday. She got there in her low-slung Prius C.
On the way back out, she took a video.
https://youtu.be/mbIY1uMhzos
I caught the Lowndes County Litter Crew on site, at Folsom Bridge Landing, on the Little River west of Hahira on GA 122, on the WWALS Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
![[Lowndes County Litter Crew and beach deadfalls, Folsom Bridge Landing, Little River @ GA 122]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-08-23--folsom-bridge-landing-jlh-beach-lowndes-county-litter-crew/many.jpg)
Lowndes County Litter Crew and beach deadfalls, Folsom Bridge Landing, Little River @ GA 122
Earlier this year they won a Georgia statewide award. They pick up weekly at all the public river access points in Lowndes County, also on the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT). I thanked the litter crew for doing that.
And I thank Lowndes County Public Works for their longstanding agreement with WWALS that they will pick up bagged trash we leave at boat ramps after cleanups.
The Litter Crew was using their RV down towards the river. Continue reading
Suzy Hall found this smelly trash yesterday, July 5, 2023, at Clyattville-Nankin Boat Ramp.
![[Ravine, freezer, Withlacoochee River under Clyattville-Nankin Road Bridge --Suzy Hall 2023-07-05]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2023-07-05--trash-nankin/many.jpg)
Ravine, freezer, Withlacoochee River under Clyattville-Nankin Road Bridge –Suzy Hall 2023-07-05
She says it’s in the “infamous ravine”, which I’m assuming to be the one south (left) of the boat ramp, about here: 30.674710, -83.394021. Continue reading
Update 2022-06-01: Chainsaw cleanup again, Withlacoochee River 2022-06-05.
Some chainsawed, others cleaned up, on the chainsaw cleanup at the Withlacoochee River.
We met at the Salty Snapper parking lot, but we did not actually go to Sugar Creek. We headed straight for the biggest Withlacoochee River impediment, the infamous NSRR Deadfall, a stack of deadfalls (downed trees) across the river downstream of the Norfolk Southern Railroad Bridge.
That took the allotted time of nine to noon. We’ll probably do it again next Sunday; stay tuned.
![[Logjam, Sawing, Cleanup, Banners]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-05-29--chainsaw-cleanup-pictures/many.jpg)
Logjam, Sawing, Cleanup, Banners
Thanks to Phil Hubbard for sawing and Jan Krysa for helping in the boat and in the water. Thanks to Elizabeth Brunner and family for cleaning up.
Also, we did not see much trash actually in the big deadfall, presumably because Continue reading
![[Langdale Park still inacessible, Country Club Road closed 2024-12-05, Withlacoochee River, Three Mile Branch]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2024-12-02--hurricane-helene-damage-langdale-park-country-club-road/fbmany.jpg)