The rivers were still clean, in yet another week with no rain: the Withlacoochee, Alapaha, and Suwannee Rivers.
Even famously filthy Crawford Branch was clean.
However, notoriously dirty Sugar Creek was dirty,
but it did not seem to affect the Withlacoochee River much.
No rain is predicted for this weekend.
In the last week, no new sewage spills were reported in the Suwannee River Basin in
Georgia
or
Florida.
So happy swimming, boating, and fishing this weekend!
The traditional annual WWALS Sheboggy Georgia Adopt-A-Stream cleanup at Sheboggy, plus an upstream paddle, from this most upstream of the access points on the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT).
Oh, and we still want those Sheboggy road signs back.
When:
1 PM, Sunday, September 9, 2018
Put In:
Sheboggy Boat Ramp, 11004 US Highway 82, Alapaha, GA 31622, a few miles east of Alapaha, Georgia, in Berrien County.
Bring: the usual personal flotation device, boat paddles, food, drinking water, warm clothes, and first aid kit.
Also trash pickers and trash bags: every WWALS outing is also a cleanup.
Free: This outing is free to WWALS members, and $10 (ten dollars) for non-members for the paddle (the cleanup is free to everyone).
We recommend you support the work of WWALS by
becoming a WWALS member today!
Come hear good music this afternoon, new songs about the Suwannee,
Withlacoochee, and other rivers, said
Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman
on the radio yesterday morning with
Scott James.
The M.C. for today’s finals of the
Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest,
WWALS E.D. Gretchen Quarterman, explained the raffles (kayak, swag,
and silent auction), and we mentioned
the buffet and cash bar at the
at the Salty Snapper, 1405 Gornto Rd, Valdosta, GA 31602.
We listed the finalists in the
Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest,
and described the format: speeches (especially by Will Eason of the Salty Snapper), finalists play new songs about the rivers, judges score on music, lyrics, history, etc., and finally
the results of the raffles, and the prizes.
We showed off the First Prize plaque, just handed to us by WWALS
Board Member Phil Hubbard, who made it.
Videos: Songwriting Contest on Scott James Radio 2018-06-22
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS),
Once festival season is over today, we noted we’ll get on with the programs WWALS fundraising pays for.
Such as
water quality testing: Continue reading →
You don’t have to steal them:
WWALS will sell you a similar smaller metal sign.
Those will be $20 each, available by the end of May 2018, and we’ll have an online order form.
Update 2018-03-15: People want to know how much the signs cost:
Road Signs
$150 $500 road signs for one signpost (one direction)
$300 $1,000 pair of road posts with signs for a landing or boat ramp
Signs at the water near a boat ramp or landing: if you donate for a specific location, your logo can go on the signs there, and on the water trail brochures and web pages
Any amount of donation helps put up the road signs that let people know the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT) exists and directs them to the landings,
as well as the kiosks that inform people about what to expect nearby,
so we get more people paddling the Alapaha River who will take care of the river.
The
Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT)
is a reality. We are ordering have bought the road signs from
the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) which has planted them on roads leading to landings, and we need to pay for them.
We have a small amount of money from Continue reading →
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