Here is the agenda, as well as the zoom parameters, for the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting, WWALS President Sara Jay presiding, January 8, 2023. The public is invited.
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We will be discussing Continue reading
WWALS President Sara Jay will preside over the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting. The public is invited.
We will be discussing the Chairman and Mayor’s Paddle, the BIG Little River Paddle Event, and other outings and cleanups: see https://wwals.net/outings. As well as trash, water quality testing, opposition to mines, water withdrawals, coal ash, pellet plants, and LNG export, as well as promotion of water trails and solar power: see https://wwals.net/issues/ And of course finances.
That’s for the entire 10,000 square mile Suwannee River Basin, in Georgia and Florida, including the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Alapahoochee, Little times two, New times two, Santa Fe, and Suwannee Rivers, and all their creeks, springs, sinks, ponds, and swamps, such as Grand Bay, Banks Lake and the Okefenokee Swamp.
When: 6 PM to 8 PM, Sunday, January 8, 2023
Where: Online via zoom, so you don’t even have to go anywhere. The zoom parameters will follow, as will an agenda.
Here is the agenda and zoom parameters for the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting, new WWALS President Sara Jay presiding. The public is invited.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89308028204?pwd=VmwyMzVTMVR6WGJxbUFUSlFXWFRWQT09
One tap mobile: +13092053325,,89308028204#,,,,*392346#
We will be discussing the WWALS Boomerang Paddle Race, Chairman and Mayor’s Paddle, Songwriting Contest, trash, outings, water quality testing, opposition to mines, water withdrawals, coal ash, pellet plants, and LNG export, as well as promotion of water trails and solar power, and of course finances.
That’s for the entire 10,000 square mile Suwannee River Basin, in Georgia and Florida, including the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Alapahoochee, Little times two, New times two, Santa Fe, and Suwannee Rivers, and all their creeks, springs, sinks, ponds, and swamps, such as Grand Bay, Banks Lake and the Okefenokee Swamp.
When: 8 AM – 10 AM, Sunday, October 9, 2022
Where: Online via zoom, so you don’t even have to go anywhere.
Continue readingUpdate 2022-10-10: Agenda: WWALS Board Meeting 2022-10-09.
New WWALS President Sara Jay will preside over the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting. The public is invited.
We will be discussing the WWALS Boomerang Paddle Race, Chairman and Mayor’s Paddle, Songwriting Contest, trash, outings, water quality testing, opposition to mines, water withdrawals, coal ash, pellet plants, and LNG export, as well as promotion of water trails and solar power, and of course finances.
That’s for the entire 10,000 square mile Suwannee River Basin, in Georgia and Florida, including the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Alapahoochee, Little times two, New times two, Santa Fe, and Suwannee Rivers, and all their creeks, springs, sinks, ponds, and swamps, such as Grand Bay, Banks Lake and the Okefenokee Swamp.
When: 8 AM – 10 AM, Sunday, October 9, 2022
Where: Online via zoom, so you don’t even have to go anywhere. The zoom parameters will follow, as will an agenda.
![[Square WWALS and Suwannee Riverkeeper logos]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/logo/square-wwals-suwrk-logos.jpg){kind=logo}
Square WWALS and Suwannee Riverkeeper logos
Thanks to the dozen WWALS volunteers who helped at the WWALS booth and in the parade at the Hahira Honeybee Festival, September 30 and October 1, 2022.
That’s Scotti Jay in the truck and Sara Jay on the raffle kayak in the parade. Continue reading
Valdosta had yet another small sewage spill, this time on Friday, September 23, 2022, into Lake Sheri, which drains into the Withlacoochee River just upstream from I-75.
![[Report and map: Valdosta Lake Sheri sewage spill 2022-09-23]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-09-29--wq/2022-09-23--spill-and-map-valdosta-lake-sheri-sewage-spill.jpg)
Report and map: Valdosta Lake Sheri sewage spill 2022-09-23
Most likely that spill was too small to affect the river, but those poor people who live on Lake Sheri, which already had three sewage spills upstream this summer.
The GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report for Monday, September 26, 2022 shows that 1,250 raw sewage spill as Continue reading
Update 2022-10-01: Good Water Quality, Withlacoochee, Little, Alapaha Rivers 2022-09-29.
Update 2022-09-25: High E. coli near One Mile Branch fish kill, and maybe fuel spill 2022-09-23.
Thursday WWALS test results are very good. The most recent Valdosta test results from Valdosta are for Monday, and they are also good.
But Friday WWALS found a fish kill in One Mile Branch starting at Valdosta State University. That is upstream from Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River. Later today we should have some E. coli test results from One Mile Branch.
Ashburn had yet another sewage spill a week ago into Hat Creek upstream on the Alapaha River, and High Springs had a spill Thursday a week ago near the Santa Fe River. Both were so small they probably had no detectable effect on river water quality.
So I would swim, boat, and fish in the Withlacoochee River downstream from the Little River Confluence. But I would avoid the Withlacoochee River from there up to Sugar Creek. Continue reading
Update 2022-08-24: VSU Student Life says:
Due to the forecasted inclement weather, we have decided to reschedule the Happening to Tuesday, August 30. All other details regarding the Happening 2022 has remained the same.
Come see us at the annual Valdosta State University student orientation: The Happening.
Or WWALS members, you can volunteer at the WWALS booth to help tell students about the fun and work we do.
![[Rescheduled to Tuesday, October 30, 2022]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2022-08-30--vsu-happening/many.jpg)
Rescheduled to Tuesday, October 30, 2022
When: 1PM to 4PM, Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Where: VSU front lawn, 1500 N Patterson St, Valdosta, GA 31698.
Event: facebook
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/
Update 2022-08-24: Rescheduled to Tuesday, October 30, 2022.
Come see us at the annual Valdosta State University student orientation: The Happening.
Or WWALS members, you can volunteer at the WWALS booth to help tell students about the fun and work we do.
When: 1PM to 4PM, Thursday, August 25, 2022
Where: VSU front lawn, 1500 N Patterson St, Valdosta, GA 31698. Continue reading
Before last weekend all the water quality results from Valdosta for Wednesday and Madison Health for Thursday seemed good. But then it rained late Thursday. I tested Friday, and while US 41, just below Sugar Creek, and US 84 were good on the Withlacoochee River, Knights Ferry Boat Ramp was not good at all.
That contamination must have washed downstream. It may have already passed State Line by Monday, and it may never show up in Valdosta or Madison Health results. We shall see what their results for this week say.
But it was there at Knights Ferry Boat Ramp Friday. This is a good illustration of why even more frequent testing is needed.
Oh, and vote for clean water.
At Knights Ferry, I counted 39 + 38 + 39 = 116 * 100 / 3 = 3,866 cfu/100 mL E. coli.
I went with Gretchen’s slightly lower counts of
40 + 25 + 39 = 104 * 100 / 3 = 3,466,
because there was some doubt whether some E. coli colonies were separate or not.
Sara Jay got an even lower 2,633.
Whichever, it’s clear they’re all well above the 1,000 Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
alert limit.
So we’re using the 2,633 3,466 middle number, which is plenty bad. Continue reading
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![[Sara Jay]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-08-29--vsu-happening/69392230_2244225775704140_8459471305366831104_n.jpg)
![[US 41, NSRR, US 84, KF]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2020-10-30--wq/many.jpg)