Update 2025-10-23:
Sewer System Repairs and Water Quality Testing by Valdosta Utilities 2025-10-21.
Update 2025-09-03:
Better Withlacoochee River, Worse Sugar Creek 2025-09-01.
Congratulations to Valdosta Utilities for taking action on a chronic sewage spill location!
Scotti Jay reported Sunday that he had noticed that morning an excavator at the Wainwright Drive manhole on One Mile Branch, where spills continue into Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River.
Scotti wrote,
“Upon a closer look, the old manhole is gone. A new, updated and uplifted manhole now exists. I will wait to celebrate after the next storm. Strangely, the pine tree, whose roots were a problem in the old manhole, is also still there. So, let’s hope it holds water.”
Monday, Sara Jay sent a picture, attributed as a “screenshot from the Ring doorbell camera online community.”
If anybody know a more precise source, please let us know. Continue reading
New manhole, Wainwright Drive, One Mile Branch, 2025-08-31
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Pictures: Another Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-04-26
We got quite a bit of trash off of Wainwright Drive, One Mile Branch, and the Azalea City Trail, including near the old trash dump across Hurricane-Helene-damaged fence.
Clean up One Mile Branch, at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta, GA, April 26, 2025
The land beyond One Mile Branch left bank, Azalea City Trail, and the fence is owned by University System of GA Board of Regents.
There were children playing in One Mile Branch, including right below the manholes that have repeatedly leaked massive amounts of raw sewage.
One Mile Branch runs into Sugar Creek into the Withlacoochee River.
Thanks to Sara Squires Jones and Scotti Jay for organizing this cleanup.
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Send in your songs, Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest 2025
Hahira, Georgia, March 28, 2025 — Submissions open April 1, really, no fooling, for the 2025 Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest.
WWALS Board Member Scotti Jay said, “It will be even more fun this year!”
The Eighth Annual Finals will be held at the WWALS River Revue, an indoor fundraising dinner, to benefit WWALS Watershed Coalition, with an evening of food, drink, speakers from Georgia and Florida, a silent auction, and the music of a headliner and of the Songwriting Contest Finalists. That’s 5-9 PM, Saturday, September 6, 2025, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia.
Tickets are $65 each.
https://app.betterunite.com/WWALS-wwalsriverrevue2025
WWALS Membership Director Janet Martin said, “Your ticket or sponsorship helps support everything WWALS does, from water quality tests, paddle outings and swimming & boating lessons, to chainsaw cleanups, and beyond to advocacy to stop trash at its sources, strip mines, and pipelines. We work for water trails, solar power, and Right to Clean Water, with growing engagement for youth and marginalized communities.”
For how to sponsor or provide an item for the silent auction, follow the above link or the QR code, or go to wwals.net and scroll down to WWALS River Revue.
Song Submissions Open April 1, 2025, no fooling!, Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest
WWALS President Sara Squires Jones said, “Musicians, don’t wait until the deadline to send in your songs. I can’t wait to hear them.”
Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman said, “You’ll hear more later about the M.C., the speakers, and the judges.”
Continue readingAnother Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-04-26
Update 2025-04-30: Pictures: Another Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-04-26.
Rescheduled due to thunderstorms to April 26.
Come clean up trash along Azalea City Trail in Valdosta. Start near the notorious Wainwright Drive manhole on Sugar Creek, and go upstream and downstream.
When: 10 AM, Sunday, April 26, 2025
Put In: Wainwright Drive between Baytree Drive and Brookhaven Drive, and maybe also downstream, in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
GPS: 30.84287, -83.30113
Azalea City Trail, Cleanup 2025-04-26, Start at Wainwright Drive, One Mile Branch
Pictures: Azalea Festival 2025-03-08
Thanks to Gretchen Quarterman, Elizabeth Brunner, Lisa Adkins-Montisano, Cindy Vedas, Sara Squires Jones, and Scotti Jay Jones for making the WWALS Booth at Azalea Festival a success.
Azalea Festival, Thanks, Volunteers, One Mile Branch, Valdosta, GA 2025-03-08
Volunteers gave out many flyers, especially about the Mayor and Chairman’s Paddle, coming up this Saturday, March 15.
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All these pictures are from delivery Friday or at the Festival Saturday. Sunday got rained out. Thanks to Scotti and Sara for delivering the booth back to its abode. Continue reading
Another Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-03-16
Update 2025-04-15 Rescheduled due to impending thunderstorms. Another Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-04-26.
Come clean up trash along Azalea City Trail in Valdosta. Start near the notorious Wainwright Drive manhole on Sugar Creek, and go upstream and downstream.
When: 10 AM, Sunday, March 16, 2025
Put In: Wainwright Drive between Baytree Drive and Brookhaven Drive, and maybe also downstream, in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
GPS: 30.84287, -83.30113
Azalea City Trail Cleanup 2025-03-16, Start at Wainwright Drive, One Mile Branch
Food and drink, speakers and song: WWALS River Revue 2025
Hahira, Georgia, February 19, 2025 — Back again on the first Saturday in September, it’s the WWALS River Revue, at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, Georgia. Featuring food and drink, speakers and new songs about waterways in the Suwannee River Basin. Plus a silent auction and plaques and prizes for the songwriting winners.
WWALS President Sara Jay Jones said, “it will be even more fun this year!”
There will be food and drink while you listen to speakers about the Suwannee River Basin.
You can bid on items in the silent auction.
Tickets are $65 each.https://app.betterunite.com/WWALS-wwalsriverrevue2025
For how to sponsor or provide an item for the silent auction, follow the QRcode or go to wwals.net and scroll down to WWALS River Revue.
WWALS Board member Scotti Jay Jones said, “Don’t forget the music!”
A headliner will play, followed by finalists in the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest. Song submissions will open April First (no fooling). Three judges will decide who wins in several categories of songs about waterways in the Basin or Estuary.
Organizing Committee member Janet Martin said, “Maybe you’d like to join the organizing committee!”
Continue readingPictures: Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA 2025-01-25
Update 2025-03-08: Another Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Valdosta, GA 2025-03-16.
Thanks to the four Alpha Phi Alpha of VSU.
Cleanup, One Mile Branch, Azalea City Trail 2025-01-25, Wainwright Drive, Alpha Phi Alpha, VSU
Thanks to Scotti Jay Jones and Sara Squires Jones for organizing this cleanup near the notorious Wainwright Drive manhole on One Mile Branch, along the Azalea City Trail in Valdosta, Georgia.
Donovan Henderson of Alpha Phi Alpha found the Zacadoo’s cup. Continue reading
Rescheduled: Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA 2025-01-25
Update 2025-01-26: Pictures: Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta, GA 2025-01-25.
Rescheduled to January because of impending thunderstorms on the previous date.
Join us to clean up trash near the notorious Wainwright Drive manhole on Sugar Creek, along the Azalea City Trail in Valdosta, Georgia.
When: 10 AM-1 PM, Saturday, January 25, 2025
Put In: Wainwright Drive between Baytree Drive and Brookhaven Drive in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
GPS: 30.84287, -83.30113
Clean up One Mile Branch on the Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA, Rescheduled to 2025-01-25
Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA 2024-12-29
Update 2024-12-27: Due to impending rain at the original date, Rescheduled: Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA 2025-01-25.
Join us to clean up trash near the notorious Wainwright Drive manhole on Sugar Creek, along the Azalea City Trail in Valdosta, Georgia.
When: 10 AM-1 PM, Sunday, December 29, 2024
Put In: Wainwright Drive between Baytree Drive and Brookhaven Drive in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
GPS: 30.84287, -83.30113
Clean up One Mile Branch at Azalea City Trail 2024-12-29, Wainwright Drive, Valdosta GA

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