First a $250 check, then a letter of support, from the Hamilton County, Florida
Tourist Development Council (TDC).
WWALS thanks TDC!
In this picture taken at the 26 October 2014 Dead River Sink Outing Continue reading
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Sabal Trail on GWC Dirty Dozen: contamination, sinkholes, aquifer –WCTV
WCTV’s Winnie Wright interviewed VSU’s Don Thieme,
and VSU’s Can Denizman navigated her to the
the Cherry Creek sinkhole site for part of her report about
the Withlacoochee River in Georgia Water Coalition Dirty Dozen 2014
Item 9 as threatened by the Sabal Trail pipeline.
Sabal Trail’s Andrea Grover is “disappointed” in being on the Dirty Dozen;
does she also find it “hard to believe” like Sabal Trail’s well-documented
eminent domain threats?
Winnie Wright, WCTV, 26 November 2014, Sabal Trail Pipeline Environmental Concerns Cited In Annual ‘Dirty Dozen’ Report, Continue reading
Organizational Meeting for Alapaha River Water Trail 2014-12-13
WWALS Watershed
Coalition, Inc.
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation
3338 Country Club Road #L336
Valdosta, GA 31605
17 November 2014
Re: Alapaha River Water Trail
Dear Neighbor,
You are invited to an organizational meeting for the Alapaha River Water Trail by WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS). This updates and slightly extends the old Alapaha Canoe Trail from the 1970s, with new map, brochure, and website in the making.
When: 1-4PM
Saturday December 13th 2014
Where: Continue reading
Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the Alapaha River Water Trail –Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber of Commerce in the center of the Alapaha River Water Trail sent a very nice letter of support that connects the dots between water recreation, education, and economy.
VALDOSTA – LOWNDES COUNTY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Leading Businesses.
Leading Communities.November 5, 2014 Continue reading
Dirty Dozen, sinkhole, aquifer, drinking water, and corrosion –WWALS to FERC about Sabal Trail
“There is no reason anyone
in WWALS’ watersheds should accept any risk for the
profit of Williams Company, Spectra Energy, and FPL, when
any need for the Sabal Trail pipeline is unproven, and in
any case the pipeline does not serve anyone in
Georgia.”
Filed with FERC 15 November 2014, and appeared in FERC’s ecomment system 17 November 2014 (PDF).
WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc.
3338 Country Club Road #L336
Valdosta, GA 31605
15 November 2014VIA ELECTRONIC FILING
Ms. Kimberly Bose
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
888 First Street NE
Washington, DC 20426Re: Southeast Market Pipelines Project,
Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC Docket No PFl4-1-000
Williams Transco Hillabee Expansion Project, LLC Docket No PFl4-6-000Dear Ms. Bose,
I applaud FERC for getting Sabal Trail to move off of the Withlacoochee River in Hamilton County, Florida. However, the same karst limestone geology underlies the same Withlacoochee River and the Floridan Aquifer in Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia, and WWALS Watershed Coalition continues Continue reading
Alapaha River Sink 2014-11-11
Deanna Mericle posted on facebook 11 November 2014,
Chris and I hiked the riverbed of the Alapaha River and found the other sink!
Other as in different from the Dead River Sink. Continue reading
Rivers go underground at the Cody Scarp
The Alapaha River goes underground because the underlying karst limestone rises in what’s called the Cody Scarp, which runs across north Florida. Other rivers that go underground there include the Little Alapaha River and the Santa Fe River. The Withlacoochee River does not go underground, but it does sprout Madison Blue Spring.
Source: Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, vol. 123, no. 3-4, p. 457.
Here’s a cutaway diagram of how all that works underground: Continue reading
Coastal Plain Chapter, Georgia Native Plant Society, 2014-11-15
Plants in our watersheds and along our waterways affect everything from
water flow to absorption to water quality to esthetics.
This Saturday there’s a conference about that near the Alapaha River.
Annual Meeting, Coastal Plain Chapter, Georgia Native Plant Society,
November 15, 2014 Continue reading
Avoid karst and water and demonstrate need for the Sabal Trail pipelne –Dougherty County Commission to FERC
A county commission is representing its people and the waters of Georgia in a resolution Dougherty County sent to FERC which says in part:
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SECTION II Thus, we are in opposition to the construction of the proposed pipeline in Dougherty County and request that FERC give serious consideration and analysis to alternative routes (1) that avoid unstable geologic areas such as karst and sink-hole prone areas, (2) that minimize impacts to drinking water and agricultural water supplies, (3) that minimize impacts to wildlife habitat, forest, wetlands, streams and rivers and (4) that do not compromise socio-economic and cultural issues.
Valdosta rerouting sewer main away from Withlacoochee River
Not only is Valdosta
putting in a new force main to stop the manhole overflows in neighborhoods
near the Withlacoochee River,
it plans to abandon the current trunk main next to the river
once that project is finished.
An update on Valdosta’s sanitary sewer projects
by Tim Carroll led to
this map of the projects, on which you can see that rerouting: Continue reading