The Little and Withlacoochee Rivers tested good for Thursday.

River water levels are well within boatable range.

There was rain today, and more is expected tomorrow, so contamination could wash into the rivers.

No sewage spills have been reported in the past week in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida.

So fish, swim, and boat at your own risk this weekend.

Maybe you’d like to join us tomorrow, Withlacoochee Springs and Slough, Sullivan Launch 2023-07-15.

Chart, River, Swim Guide Map 2023-07-13

Valdosta’s major spill of 2023-07-06 still has not shown up in the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report.

The Valdosta Williams Street One Mile Branch sewage spill of June 21st still has not shown up in the GA-EPD Sewage Spills Report. The Valdosta City Manager two weeks ago promised to look into that.

Ashburn had three spills two weeks ago, one of them major, all finally reported this Wednesday. We’ll post a writeup on those later.

Chart: Clean Withlacoochee River 2023-07-13
For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of water quality results, rainfall, and sewage spills, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing

The most recent Valdosta results we have are for Wednesday upstream and Monday a week ago downstream.

Valdosta got very high E. coli numbers for this Monday at US 41 and GA 133, but Valdosta’s Wednesday results were back within range, as are the WWALS Thursday US 41 results.

Thanks to Cindy and David Vedas for their four sites, Franklinville Road on the Withlacoochee River, Crawford Branch at Skipper Bridge Road, and Staten Road and US 41 on the Withlacoochee River.

Thanks to Jacob and Michael Bachrach for sampling Thursday at Troupville Boat Ramp on the Little River, and Clyattville-Nankin and State Line Boats Ramps on the Withlacoochee River.

Thanks to WWALS Testing Committee Chair Suzy Hall for herding the testing cats.

Thanks to Gretchen Quarterman for training the testers and delivering supplies.

I’ve marked green for the WWALS “beaches” for which we have recent data, on

Map: Clean Withlacoochee River, Swim Guide 2023-07-13

Here’s a live Swim Guide Map.

Thanks to Joe Brownlee and Georgia Power for a generous grant for water quality testing equipment and materials.

You or your organization could also donate to the WWALS volunteer water quality testing program.

Or maybe you’d like to become a WWALS water quality tester; please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/DzWvJuXqTQi12N6v7

There are more images below.

 -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/

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Troupville Boat Ramp, Little River @ GA 133 2023-07-13

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Franklinville, Withlacoochee River @ Frankinville Road 2023-07-13

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Crawford Branch, Withlacoochee River @ Skipper Bridge Road 2023-07-13

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Staten Road, Withlacoochee River @ Staten Road 2023-07-13

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US 41 Landing, Withlacoochee River @ North Valdosta Road 2023-07-13

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Nankin Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Clyattville-Nankin Road 2023-07-13

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State Line Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Madison Highway 2023-07-13

 -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/

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