That magic word “jobs” sucked up water from one of north Florida’s
most famous springs: Madison Blue Spring, very familiar to many people from south Georgia.
Will it do the same about a pipeline?
Joseph Trento wrote for DC Bureau 20 July 2009, Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: How Nestlé Got Millions and Millions of Dollars From a $230 Permit. Continue reading
The South Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC)
produced this interesting map of the Alapahoochee River Watershed
I saw on the counter while visiting the USDA FSA office in Valdosta about something unrelated.
Curiously, it doesn’t show the actual river nor its tributaries
Mud Creek and Grand Bay Creek.
But it does show that this watershed includes much of Valdosta,
half of Dasher, and all of Lake Park. Continue reading
Related to
population centers in the Suwannee River watershed,
someone asked,
“Do we need an interstate Suwannee Bioregion Coalition to guard the waters that feed into the Suwannee River?”
We’ve got pieces of it already cooperating to some extent in opposing
the Sabal Trail pipeline.
There are many other even larger issues that everyone in the Suwannee River
basin faces.
In south Georgia and north Florida we have Continue reading
Apparently everybody knew this but me.
The biggest city in the entire
11,020 square mile Suwannee river basin,
half in south Georgia and half in Florida (that half being the largest river basin in Florida),
is…. Continue reading
Update 2025-01-21: Little River upstream 2014-06-28.
Paddle upstream on the Little River and float back down:
the WWALS June Outing.
When: Please arrive by 8:30 AM so everyone can be ready to put in by 9AM.
Where: GA 133 bridge at the border of Brooks County and Lowndes County, Georgia. If we go far enough up, Continue reading
Meeting notice: -jsq
NOTICE:
SUWANNEE-SATILLA
REGIONAL WATER PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING
FOR
REGIONAL ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION STATUS
Announcement Date: May 6, 2014
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:
The Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council is holding its next meeting
at the following date, time, and location:
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Registration: 9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
Meeting: 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Valdosta City Hall Annex
Multipurpose Room
300 N. Lee Street
Valdosta, GA
For additional information about the Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning
Council please contact:
Cliff Lewis, Assistant Branch Chief – EPD Watershed Protection Branch
229-391-2400 or Cliff.Lewis@dnr.state.ga.us
Comment on facebook 10 May 2014 and he told me the same by telephone.
It is clear a full watershed wide study must be completed before any decisions can be made.
As established in this first study—The City of Valdosta is the recipient-not the origin- of the flood waters. While it confirms what we already knew, my job is to try and keep the ball rolling forward. Engage congressional leaders, secure funding and find long term, sustainable solutions that benefit all communities within the watershed basin. A levee by itself is not the answer.
–Tim Carroll
This was a comment on Videos: Flooding study by Army Corps of Engineers @ VCC 2014-05-06, which was about the initial study that was confined to Valdosta, and in which the Corps proposed a levee at the mouth of Sugar Creek, above the Withlacoochee River. To their credit, the Corps were clear that they also want a long-term watershed-wide study (they want to do the entire Suwannee River drainage area), and one of the main conclusions of the initial study was:
This report established that there could be Federal interest in pursuing future flood management risk studies undre other USACE authorities.
-jsq
Update 2025-09-21: Graphs from water.noaa.gov.
Related to the
Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
and the
double USACE flooding study presentation tonight in Valdosta,
here are river level charts
upstream and down on the Little River,
Okapilco Creek, and the Withlacoochee River
related to a new USGS flood-tracking chart.
In the example charts on the right, you can see the Little River peaked days ago at Tifton and yesterday at Hahira.
The Withlacoochee River peaked yesterday at US 41. while downstream it’s going up at US 84, and barely starting up at Pinetta (click on the above chart example for the rest). Right now you can see all that in the charts below. If this works, you’ll see something different later, because you’ll see current charts whenever you refresh this page.
See also interactive map.
Update 2016-05-31: See sea level gage reports.
Update 2016-04-27: graphs from water.weather.gov and some WRWT Safe Water Levels.
Update 2014-11-04: Simplified gage formatting.
Update 2014-11-03: That works, and see also Alapaha River water levels.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/
Received today. -jsq
Good afternoon Mr. Quarterman,
As requested, the date for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Continue readingpresentation will be on May 6th to Mayor/Council at the work session which begins at 5:30 pm. The City will also have a meeting with the residents and businesses in the USACE project / study area that same night at 6:30 pm at the City Hall Annex – Multipurpose Room.
An interesting flyer pointed out by Emily Davenport,
Storm Water Utilities Director, City of Valdosta.
It has many useful
contacts on the front,
and
tips on the back (don’t walk or drive through flood waters)
but the most useful part is
inside,
where the flood-tracking chart is, in
Flood-tracking chart for the Withlacoochee and Little River Basins in south-central Georgia and northern Florida,
2014, by Gotvald, Anthony J.; McCallum, Brian E.; Painter, Jaime A.,
USGS General Information Product: 155.
Here are the gages mentioned in the chart, with links to the live USGS FloodTracking pages, Continue reading