It’s actually two bridges closed: over what GDOT calls Brice Pond Tributary Bridge and over Okapilco Creek.
There are detours shorter between Pavo and Barney than GDOT indicates.
Which is fortunate, since the closure is very long: from 7 AM April 11, 2023 to 4 PM July 31, 2024, according to GDOT 511.
Press Alert, Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), April 7, 2023, Brooks County… Two Bridges on SR 122 Closed Beginning Next Week, Continue reading
Update 2020-09-11: Wood pellet plant: speakers and documents @ Adel City Council 2020-09-08.
Here is the agenda for tonight’s Adel City Council meeting:
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Agenda, Adel City Council 2020-09-08
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Since it can’t be any of the other items, apparently the wood pellet plant
is:
5.B. ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF INDUSTRIAL AUTHORITY PROPERTY
I don’t see anything about any previous hearings, nor any of the maps, plans, etc. that usually accompany a rezoning.
You can still use the Dogwood Alliance Action Alert to send in a comment before tonight’s meeting.
Meanwhile, I sent Adel this letter, mostly about water trails:
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WWALS to Adel, Water Trails and pellet plant 2020-09-08
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For background, see Adel wood pellet plant sourcing radius: entire Suwannee River basin in Georgia 2020-09-08.
See you in Adel in about an hour and a half.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Update 2020-09-11: Wood pellet plant: speakers and documents @ Adel City Council 2020-09-08.
Update 2020-09-08: Adel agenda and WWALS letter 2020-09-08
If a company from Houston, Texas, gets its rezoning Tuesday at the Adel, Georgia, City Council, it could take trees from 75 miles around to turn into wood pellets to ship to Europe for burning for electricity. It takes 50 to 100 years for natural forest to regenerate completely. Meanwhile, rain on land without forest runs off faster, carries more sediment and pollution (pesticides, E. coli, etc.), damaging fishing and wildlife. Floods also become more likely.
You can help stop this biomass plant. Before 5:30 PM Tuesday, please, which is when the Adel City Council has this rezoning on its agenda.
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Adel, GA, pellet plant sourcing radius
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That 75-mile sourcing radius around Adel would reach Tallahassee, Florida, and Albany, Georgia, as well as all of the Red Hills longleaf area around Thomasville. It would include all the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia: the Suwannee, Alapaha, Little, Withlacoochee, and Okapilco Rivers, from Fargo and most of the Okefenokee Swamp to Cordele in the north and Moultrie, Quitman, and Valdosta. As well as much of the Suwannee River Basin in Florida, include White Springs, Live Oak, Mayo, Jasper, and Madison. Plus the Ochlockonee and Aucilla Rivers and much of the Flint River on the west, and on the east most of the Satilla River and a bend of the Altamaha River.
This is an environmental justice issue because the plant will go in an African-American part of town and poor people are typically most adversely affected by deforestation.
When a local activist alerted me a few months ago to a proposed biomass plant in Adel, I pointed them to Vicki Weeks of the Dogwood Alliance. She has put together an Action Alert. Please follow that link to send your comment to the entire Adel City Council.
According to K.K. Synder, Georgia Trend, 31 July 2020, Adel | Cook County: Community in Motion,
Houston-based Renewable Biomass Group will construct Continue reading
In the Gainesville Sun, yesterday, May 22, 2019:
Now that Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the toll road bill, SB 7068, Suwannee Riverkeeper — which was among the 90 organizations throughout Florida that asked him to veto it — continues to oppose that boondoggle and propose actual benefits to Florida’s economy and waters.
Google map of one likely route of the Suncoast Connector.One of these three unneeded turnpikes would have to cross the Suwannee River, plowing through counties where we have many members. All this very poorly written bill says about its route is: “Suncoast Connector, extending from Citrus County to 164 Jefferson County.” Apparently that means from Crystal River to Monticello, and on to Thomasville, Georgia, through farms, forests and swamps. If this toll road builds its bypasses, bye-bye local businesses in Chiefland, Fanning Springs, Old Town and Cross City.
Yes, the turnpike bill has a “project development phase” for $45 million and increasing each year, with a Continue reading
Who in Georgia spilled how much sewage where and when? For example, SRWMD board members wanted to know how does Valdosta compare to the rest of Georgia? So that everyone can see, here are all the sewage spills reported to GA-EPD for the calendar years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Atlanta, Valdosta, Thomasville, Macon, Thunderbolt, and others spilled in late April and early May, 2015.
Depicted here is an excerpt, since all 4,577 rows would be a bit much to show. Follow the link for the entire HTML table.
Valdosta happens to show only a small spill in this excerpt. Or does it? Since when is Valdosta Continue reading
Tifton spilled at three locations, adding up to 105,100 gallons of raw sewage into the Little River watershed from the Agrirama Lift Station and from TC Gordon Road, and into the New River watershed at 26th St. & Ridge Ave., upstream from the Withlacoochee River.
GA-EPD data through Sunday, 9 December 2018; see also raw data obtained by WWALS via GORA request.
Thomasville spilled 9,000 gallons into the Ochlockonee River watershed. Macon spilled 2,400 gallons into the Ocmulgee River watershed. Columbus spilled 9,260 gallons into the Chattahoochee River watershed, although exactly when seems hard to determine.
The big winners were Atlanta, still ongoing, and Dekalb County, with a total of 42,260 gallons of raw sewage.
Valdosta, Lowndes County, and Quitman reported no new spills, although many of Valdosta’s spills are still listed as ongoing.
Prominently missing is Albany, Georgia, which Continue reading
The Google map of locations on Old Coffee Road was used by many of the early settlers of south central Georgia, including in the watersheds of the Willacoochee, Alapaha, Withlacoochee, and Little Rivers and Okapilco Creek. It crossed all those and other waterways by ford or private ferry: there were no bridges back then.
Follow
this link for the interactive google map.
The Georgia Historical Commission erected markers at half a dozen locations in the 1950s and 1960, reading: Continue reading
Our blackwater river neighbor to the west is having a paddle this Saturday.
Ocklockonee River Paddle in Thomasville,
Hosted by Mary Madden and Scott Taylor,
Saturday 11 April 2015,
Pack up your paddles, we are headed to deep southwest Georgia to explore the uncharted waters (at least in the case of our Stewardship Trips Program) of one of Georgia’s most mysterious rivers.
Join the Georgia Conservancy and the Georgia Canoeing Association Continue reading
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