Update 2024-03-09: Clean rivers and creek 2024-03-06.
I got there just after the speeches, and before the ribbon cutting. During the lab tour and after, Malia Thomas interviewed me for WTXL TV, and of course Jason Barnes, Valdosta Acting Utilities Director.
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Ribbon cutting, Valdosta water quality lab tour, WTXL reporting 2024-03-05
Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson said he mentioned me favorably during his speech. Continue reading
The crowd was large, the speeches were brief, the food was good, and the tour later was, ah, redolant, but the new plant works better than the old, and, best of all, it’s out of the flood plain.
Here are a few pictures of this morning’s ribbon cutting for what was billed as the new Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and Force Main, but they seem to have actually named the Withlacoochee Water Pollution Control Plant (WWPCP). The combination of WWPCP and Force Main so far has prevented any new wastewater spills, and long may it do so.
WWALS Videos will follow, including from a WWPCP tour by the plant operator.
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Finally ready for prime time and a ribbon cutting:
the new, uphill, out-of-the-floodplain, long-awaited
Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) and Force Main,
which have not overflowed or otherwise caused sewage spills in the recent rains,
so maybe Valdosta’s chronic problem smelt downstream all the way to the Gulf
is perhaps finally fixed.
Congratulations, Valdosta!
When: 8AM Tuesday July 12th 2016
Where: At the new WWTP on Wetherington Lane, north off US 84, west of I-75 exit 16
Invitations: Paper invitations were mailed last week, including to counties and health departments downstream in Florida, according to Sementha Mathews. If you didn’t get one, contact her, and she says the event is in any case open to the public.
Update 2016-05-30: Sementha Mathews says the paper invitations were mailed Tuesday (day before yesterday), so they should arrive by the end of the week. Arrived.
Contact: Sementha Mathews Continue reading