With a sudden break in his schedule, Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson drove to see the parking lot where people park, eat their lunch, and toss their trash next to a creek.
He didn’t like it, and said so. Here’s the problem and how to fix it.
You can help by reporting trash or other problems through Valdosta’s Click ‘n’ Fix app.
![[Mayor, trash, fast food, trash cans at storefronts]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-12-15--st-augustine-rd-hightower-creek-trash-mayor/many.jpg)
Mayor, trash, fast food, trash cans at storefronts
He had not seen this mess before, on St. Augustine Road, next to Hightower Creek. Continue reading
Bobby McKenzie reports, “Check this out. Took the kids to Wild Adventures last night. Traditionally Wild Adventures has been trashed but now there are multiple trash cans in the parking lot plus cleanup crew out there at closing!”
![[Trash Cans at Wild Adventures parking lot 2022-11-26]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-11-26--wild-adventures-trash-cans/many.jpg)
Trash Cans at Wild Adventures parking lot 2022-11-26
Yay, Wild Adventures!
FYI, Wild Adventures drains down Clyatt Mill Creek to the Withlacoochee River, between Nanking Boat Ramp and State Line Boat Ramp. So those trash cans are keeping trash out of the creek and river. Continue reading
Here may be how that KFC trash got into the WWALS boom on Sugar Creek.
Remember, you can report trash problems through Valdosta’s Click ‘n’ Fix smartphone app. For trash or other problems elsewhere, here’s how to report: https://wwals.net/report/.
There’s a Kentucky Fried Chicken at 1300 St. Augustine Road, marked by the big red pushbutton on the map. Continue reading
Update 2021-10-05: They did it again at the end of September!
Great relief was felt by the WWALS Sugar Creek cleanup crew, because Valdosta Stormwater has taken a hand at the Sugar Creek trashjam!
![[Trashjam Quartet by Angela Bray]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2021-09-17--vld-sugar-creek-cleanup/quartet.jpg)
Trashjam Quartet by Angela Bray
You are all invited to come help clean up Sugar Creek on Saturday, October 9, 2021, at this same location behind the Salty Snapper on Gornto Road.
Meanwhile, thanks to Valdosta Stormwater for not just cleaning up, but starting some repeated steps to find out when this trashjam forms and where it’s coming from.
This is the same trashjam that was pictured in Valdosta’s 2010 Stormwater Master Plan, as discussed with Mayor Scott James on his radio show, August 12, 2021.
Finally, on Friday, September 16, 2021, Valdosta Stormwater Division got hands-on and cleaned up themselves! Continue reading
It was fun and productive: cleaning up Twomile Branch and Sugar Creek, plus a bit of the Withlacoochee River.
And we got a statewide award while we were there!
The award was the Georgia Adopt-A-Stream Volunteer of the Year Award, for all the WWALS water quality testing volunteers, many of whom were at this cleanup. Thanks again to Georgia Power for the grant for testing equipment. WWALS is doing an AAS testing training this Saturday.
Join us for another cleanup at Sugar Creek on Saturday, October 10, 2020, or any of several other river and creek locations that same day, in conjunction with Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta. Or help us clean up this Saturday, September 12, 2020, at Berrien Beach Boat Ramp, northeast of Nashville, Georgia, on the Alapaha River.
Thanks to Nic Llinas and Sean of Current Problems for coming up from Gainesville, Florida, to bucket fish in Twomile Branch. Continue reading
Update 2020-09-09: Pictures
Cleanup at Twomile Branch and Sugar Creek! We have permission from the landowner on the north side of Twomile Branch and the east side of Sugar Creek to get to those creeks that way, all the way down to the Withlacoochee River. But first meet at the Salty Snapper Parking Lot. If we have time, we’ll also go up to the Millpond spillway on Jerry Jones Drive.
If we get enough people, we may also go to Onemile Branch.
When: Gather 9 AM, end 12 PM, Saturday, August 29, 2020
Put In: Salty Snapper parking lot, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602
Take Out: N/A
Bring: wet boots, sturdy gloves, trash pickers, trash bags, masks, and hand sanitizer. We will have some of those supplies, but whatever you can bring yourself will be great.
Free: This is a cleanup, so no charge.
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![[Twomile Branch, Sugar Creek, Withlacoochee River]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2020-08-29--twomile-branch-sugar-creek-cleanup/tmb.jpg)
Twomile Branch, Sugar Creek, Withlacoochee River
![[KFC trash, creeks, boom]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-03-21--trash-tractor-supply-kfc/many.jpg)
![[Bucket, need boat, Withlacoochee River, spider, bottle, handoff, Great Blue Heron, trash, Volunteer of the Year --GA AAS]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2020-08-29--twomile-branch-cleanup/many.jpg)