As WWALS volunteers keep up with it, cleaning out the WWALS Sugar Creek trash boom is like the top row: not bad. Of course, no rain for weeks helps: less washes down the creek.

It would be even less if fast food outlets upstream in Valdosta such as Cook Out and Zacadoo’s (pictured) would clean up their act. And if the owners of their parking lots would put in the trash cans required by Valdosta city ordinances. Sure, there will still be people tossing trash out of their cars, but most of this mess is coming from fast food outlet parking lots.

Boom, Trash, Cleaned

Before the boom, those trashjams in the bottom row got down Sugar Creek, and there is more on the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers. Such trash, also coming out of Threemile Branch, is not good for the planned Troupville River Camp and Nature Park, featured as their number one BIG thing by One Valdosta-Lowndes and a priority of the updated Parks and Rec. Master Plan. It’s also not good for the WWALS May 7th paddle from Langdale Park to Sugar Creek and Troupville Boat Ramp or even for the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WLRWT).

And that turtle should not have to live with that trash.

For more background, see https://wwals.net/issues/trash/.

Before

Notice the pool noodles tied on top of the boom for extra flotation. Local ingenuity!

Boom, trash, Zacadoo’s Photo: Russell Allen McBride 2022-02-24

After

Clean boom Photo: Russell Allen McBride 2022-02-26

Three days later

Boom from downstream Photo: Russell Allen McBride 2022-03-01, 15:55:51, 30.8626333, -83.3189694

Turtle on log Photo: Russell Allen McBride 2022-03-01, 16:20:12, 30.8623639, -83.3186028

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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