With James Bell whose Mitchell Co. land is being bulldozed right now. He made a video statement which we will post later.
The Valdosta Daily Times sent a reporter to this event, Protect Withlacoochee River from Sabal Trail @ US 84 2016-09-17, #NoDAPL, #NoSabalTrail, #WaterIsLife. The reporter indicated a story would probably appear Monday or Tuesday.
Update 2016-09-26: The VDT story appeared Friday.
There is no excuse for Continue reading
WWALS will have a booth at the South Georgia Pride Festival Saturday, September 17th. We will share information about our activities, programs and activism with the local community.
Waterkeeper Alliance and Affilates support equality, particularly “we know equality and human rights are intrinsic to environmental values.”
South Georgia Pride is open to the community and family friendly and we invite you to come and visit us from 12-7
at John Saunders Park, 1151 River St.,
Valdosta, GA 31601.
-gretchen
Update 2016-12-09: Here are directions to Suwannee River Campsites at 30.414, -83.159167. Facing the boat ramp, up to your right you’ll see a trail head. Follow the trail into the woods along the river bank. The river bends left, then right. Shortly after the right bend is the crossing, at 30.407379, -83.156494. Sabal Trail has marked its path in the woods; stay off of their easement but follow it until you come to a field where you should be able to see the HDD site. Send back lots of pictures. For maps and aerial pictures, see Sabal Trail maps digitized. Much more information here. And you may want to ask the CEO of college-savings mutual fund Virginia529 why her company is the biggest mutual fund stockholder in the stranded investment of Spectra Energy.
Yes, Sabal Trail wants to cross the Suwannee River IN Suwannee River State Park.
How many pipelines do we want? Continue reading
Update 2016-09-23: Sabal Trail protests continue, Valdosta Daily Times, 2016-09-23.
Update 2016-09-17: James Bell with WWALS at Withlacoochee US 84 bridge.
Update 2016-09-16: James Bell of the family being bulldozed right now by Sabal Trail will be at the US 84 Withlacoochee bridge with us 9AM Saturday morning.
Get in the picture on the bridge with boats at the proposed pipeline crossing in the background, on US 84 over the Withlacoochee River, half way between Quitman and Valdosta, GA. You, and the news media, too, are invited this Saturday 9AM! You may have seen Tuesday’s Suwannee River action on WCTV; you can come join us at the Withlacoochee River Saturday. No Dakota Access Pipeline #NoDAPL, No Sabal Trail #NoSabalTrail, #WaterIsLife.
Help demand the Army Corps re-evaluate its permit for Sabal Trail just like its permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Both pipelines should be canceled: keep it in the ground!
This WWALS Outing is part of the Continue reading
Update 2016-09-24: Video from the river and pictures from the bluff.
You are invited to protest Sabal Trail and the Dakota Access Pipeline this Tuesday 5:30 PM! News media are invited. Walk with signs along the bluff to the proposed Sabal Trail Suwannee River HDD crossing, or paddle downstream and back.
We aim to get pictures and video of people on the bluff, beach, and river
at the same time demanding the Army Corps re-evaluate its permit for Sabal Trail
just like its permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Both pipelines should be canceled: keep it in the ground!
This WWALS Outing is part of the #NoDAPL Day of Action — Tuesday Sep. 13, tying the Dakota Access oil Pipeline to the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline through their ownership by the same companies. This outing is also a followup to Continue reading
In today’s Sunday April 10th 2016 Valdosta Daily Times:
The Georgia House on March 22nd by an unprecedented 34 ayes to 128 nays rejected easements for Sabal Trail
to drill our Withlacoochee and other Georgia Rivers. This was a historic victory by the Georgia Water Coalition, including Georgia Sierra Club, WWALS, Flint Riverkeeper, Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, plus SpectraBusters, and thanks to all of you who called their state reps.
That same day, Continue reading
Update 2020-01-25: Superseded by WWALS Suwannee River Basin Map and All Landings in the Suwannee River Basin, now that Suwannee Riverkeeper territory includes the entire Basin plus Estuary, since Waterkeeper Alliance agreed to add the Ichetucknee and Santa Fe Rivers on September 26, 2019.
Update 2017-10-30:
River flowlines.
Update 2017-10-08:
Better colors plus a Suwannee River Basin map.
Update 2017-04-13: Since December 2016 WWALS Watersheds have included the Lower Suwannee River HUC 03110205
and the Suwannee River Estuary, approved by Waterkeeper Alliance the same time as the license for Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®.
Click on this link for an interactive google map of WWALS watersheds.
The images you see here are static screenshots of that google map. Follow the link above for the actual google map.
The watershed outlines are from Continue reading
Update 2016-04-03: Extra Withlacoochee outing by popular demand.
Coming up soon!
See the WWALS calendar for any more events already scheduled.
All these outings are in Georgia. Which is a switch, since Continue reading
The Upper Suwannee River is new to the
WWALS Mission.
WWALS Watershed Coalition, a WATERKEEPER® Affiliate,
applied in July to WATERKEEPER® Alliance to add that new
territory, which was approved 15 July 2015.
Three years ago when WWALS was forming, we decided not to include the Upper Suwannee at that time, because we wanted time to solidify WWALS as an organization in its smaller territory of the watersheds of the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers and all their tributaries. Even then, we put the S in WWALS so it could be redefined to mean Suwannee, so our acronym would expand to Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, and Suwannee River watersheds.
WWALS now asks Waterkeeper to add Upper Suwannee HUC 03110201 to WWALS territory.
HUC is United States Geological Survey (USGS) jargon for Hydrologic Unit Code. Upper Suwannee HUC 03110201 is everything from the Withlacoochee Confluence upstream that drains into the Suwannee River. This 2720 square miles: Continue reading
Adel, (June 12, 2015) — The Waterkeeper Alliance Board of
Directors approved WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. as a Waterkeeper
Affiliate on June 4th, 2015. WWALS Watershed Coalition, a
Waterkeeper Affiliate, will work to conserve our central south
Georgia and north Florida watersheds by combining firsthand
knowledge of the watersheds with an unwavering commitment to the
rights of the community and to the rule of law.
“Waterkeeper Alliance is thrilled to have WWALS as the eyes, ears, and voice for this vital watershed and community,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance President. “Every Continue reading