Update 2023-06-09: Clean Rivers 2023-06-08.

The Withlacoochee River tested good for Thursday, and the Little River good enough. Rain is predicted, but if you can get in before that, happy swimming, boating, and fishing this weekend.

Or join us tomorrow evening at the Banks Lake Full Strawberry Moon Paddle.

Chart, Rivers, Swim Guide Map 2023-06-01

However, the Alapaha River at Sheboggy Boat Ramp tested bad for Monday. With worse a mile or so upstream below the City of Alapaha sewage settling ponds.

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

The most recent results we have from Valdosta are for Wednesday upstream and for last Friday downstream.

Good Withlacoochee Bad Alapaha, Charts 2023-06-01
For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of water quality results, rainfall, and sewage spills, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing

Thanks to new WWALS testers Heather Brasell and Phoenix Best for their two new sites at Alapaha Settlement Pond Stream below the Alapaha Wastewater Treatment Plan (WWTP), and at US 82 on the Alapaha River, just above Sheboggy Boat Ramp.

Thanks to Cindy Vedas for pictures of her four sites, with the assistance of David Vedas, at Franklinville Road on the Withlacoochee River, Crawford Branch at Skipper Bridge Road, and Staten Road and US 41 on the Withlacoochee River. Circumstances did not permit reporting test results for those sites this week.

Thanks to David and Jacob Bachrach for their three sites, Troupville Boat Ramp on the Little River, and Nankin and State Line Boat Ramps on the Withlacoochee River.

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

Map: good Withlacoochee River, bad Alapaha River, Swim Guide 2023-06-01

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/

TBR

Troupville Boat Ramp, Little River @ GA 133 2023-06-01

AWWTP

Plates, Alapaha Settlement Pond Stream 2023-03-21

SBR

Plates, Sheboggy Boat Ramp 2023-03-21

franklinville

Franklinville, Withlacoochee River @ Frankinville Road 2023-06-01

crawfordbranch

Crawford Branch, Withlacoochee River @ Skipper Bridge Road 2023-06-01

staten

Staten Road, Withlacoochee River @ Staten Road 2023-06-01

US41

US 41 Landing, Withlacoochee River @ North Valdosta Road 2023-06-01

NBR

Nankin Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Clyattville-Nankin Road 2023-06-01

SLBR

State Line Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Madison Highway 2023-06-01

 -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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