6-8PM Thursday 17 July 2014
Memorial Stadium, 715 Dewey St., Waycross, GA 31501
The Environmental Protection Agency, GA Environmental Protection
Division, and Georgia Department of Public Health will be present to
discuss sample collection and results from the Seven Out Tank site
in downtown Waycross.
EPD will also be available to address issues and answer questions regarding CSX.
From Satilla Riverkeeper’s facebook event. Here’s a map: Continue reading
Bacterial Monitoring on Friday and Chemical Monitoring on Saturday
in Waycross, by
Georgia Adopt-A-Stream (AAS), Satilla Riverkeeper,
and other.
This is not a WWALS event, but everyone is invited. -jsq Continue reading
It’s a serious situation in Waycross, with people getting sick and dying.
The contamination, whatever it is,
may have crossed into WWALS watersheds, as well.
Good interactions between WWALS, Satilla Riverkeeper,
and silentdisaster.org, plus EPA, GA EPD, and GA Health Dept.
Matthew J. Huyser, EPA (l. standing blue shirt), Jim Brown, GA EPD (c. standing white shirt), Ashby Nix, Satilla Riverkeeper (facing Brown, paper in hand), Joan Martin McNeal, silentdisaster.org (r. in group)
For details, see these posts on Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE): Continue reading