Here is
the WWALS item #9
in the
Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen 2014;
I added the links and the illustrations. -jsq
2014’s
Worst Offenses Against
GEORGIA’S WATER
WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER & FLORIDAN AQUIFER
Gas Pipeline Threatens Southwest Georgia Water, Way of Life
INTRODUCTION:
Southwest Georgians are fighting an invader—one every bitas worrisome as the boll weevil that destroyed cotton harvests in the 1900s, except this one takes farmers’ land as well as crops. Continue reading
Drilling through fragile sinkhole-prone
karst limestone under the Withlacoochee River (or the Suwannee River,
or the Santa Fe River): what could possibly go wrong?
Sabal Trail now proposes to move off of the Withlacoochee River in
Florida, but still plans to cross the Withlacoochee in Georgia,
and to cross the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers, all of which have
the same hydrogeology.
You can talk directly to Sabal Trail and FERC at the
Open House in Jasper, Florida, 5-7PM Tuesday 21 October 2014,
and you can join WWALS where the Alapaha River
disappears entirely into a sinkhole,
at the
Alapaha Sink, 2PM Sunday 26 October 2014.
Here are before and after diagrams by Continue reading
Due to fine work by WWALS members Chris and Deanna Mericle in Hamilton
County, Florida,
Sabal Trail proposes to move its fracked methane
pipeline off of the Withlacoochee River in Florida, and invites the public
to an Open House in Jasper, FL Tuesday October 21st about that and
other matters. We can ask them to move it off the Withlacoochee River
in Georgia, too. And it’s still possible to file ecomments with FERC,
and to contact your local, state, and national elected and appointed officials.
In FERC’s 15 October 2014 Sabal Trail Notice of EIS Intent and Route Alternatives, Continue reading
Viral video:
If We Cared About The Environment Like We Care About Sports.
If you care, you can become a WWALS member or donate. We’re all about conservation, for fishing, boating, swimming, wildlife, plants, economy, and history, including the Alapaha River Water Trail. And you are invited to our next outing, walking to the Alapaha Sink, 2PM 26 Oct 2014.
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There’s are a reason the WWALS Mission says “conservation”. It’s pithily summed up by Prof. Rahul Mehrotra.
Elizabeth Gudrais wrote for Harvard Magazine May-June 2012, Engaging Students with Conservation,
PROFESSOR OF URBAN DESIGN and planning Rahul Mehrotra has been involved with restoring historic palaces, writing a law on historic preservation in Mumbai, and crafting a conservation master plan for the Taj Mahal. Harvard recruited him in part for this expertise, and this academic year, with Noyes professor in architectural theory Michael Hays, he has launched a conservation track for Graduate School of Design (GSD) master’s students.
Conservation, he says, is not the same as preservation, which focuses on protection and repair. Conservation is broader and richer, combining historical integrity and creativity to develop narratives connecting the present with the past.
Historical narratives like connecting Continue reading
Board meetings are open to the public. Facebook event.
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Draft Agenda
WWALS Board
7:30 PM Wednesday 8 October 2014
IHOP Adel, GA
Thanks to Glenn Dowling of Georgia River Network for this flyer from the 1970s for an Alapaha River Trail on “Georgia’s Cleanest River”.
Front
CANOE GUIDE
to the
Alapaha
River TrailGEORGIA’S CLEANEST
RIVERGEORGIA
State of AdventureBack
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The Alapaha River is the first illustration in the
Soil Survey of Lowndes County of August 1979.
This A+ gem of a blackwater river remains “unspoiled, wild, and scenic”
and still “provides water sports and fishing for hundreds of people”.
More people will know about it soon, due to the
Alapaha River Water Trail.
Come see an unuusal feature farther downstream:
the Alapaha Sink, where the river goes underground.
Come with WWALS to the Sink October 26th. Continue reading
Pictures of the location of the
Alapaha River Cleanup at US 82, 27 September 2014,
taken east of the town of Alapaha at US 82 on the Alapaha River by Bret Wagenhorst.
And this access point is on the Alapaha River Water Trail WWALS is developing.
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WWALS encourages people to participate in
Keep Lowndes/Valdosta Beautiful (KLVB)‘s
event:
Georgia’s Fifteenth Annual River Clean up
Saturday, October 4, 2014
8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Multiple Lowndes/Valdosta Cleanup Sites:
“Please call or emaiI to volunteer so that you can be assigned to ane of the sites“
For More Information Contact: Continue reading