Update 2023-02-12: From bad to worse: Cherry Creek 2023-02-12.

Valdosta had a small sewage spill Saturday, next to a branch of Cherry Creek. It was probably too small to have much effect on the creek and even less on the Withlacoochee River. WWALS sent water quality testers out to sample anyway.

Boys & Girls Club Lift Station, Lake Laurie Drive, The Dip, Lake Cleve, Cherry Creek 2023-02-12

Valdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson texted me yesterday. He says the spill was first reported to Valdosta Utilities about 7:30 PM and “stopped discharging about 11:00p last night.” He was referring to Saturday, February 11, 2023.

The amount is estimated to be 2,800 gallons. That’s a minor spill (less than 10,000 gallons).

The spill was from Valdosta’s Boys and Girls Club Lift Station, 3658 Lake Laurie Drive, Valdosta, GA 31605. That’s in Valdosta City Council District 5, Tim Carroll.

Boys and Girls Club Lift Station, 2023:02:12 17:39:58, 30.8975867, -83.2799718

That’s upstream from the Withlacoochee River.

Map: Cherry Creek to Withlacoochee River in the WWALS map of the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.

I tested four locations: Cherry Creek’s South Branch just below and downstream from the spill, Lake Laurie Drive upstream from the spill, Cherry Creek Road, and The Dip, i.e., the spillway of the dam of Lake Cleve, commonly known as Cherry Lake.

Four water samples from Cherry Creek, 2023:02:12 19:01:12, 31.0126730, -83.2699180

Another WWALS tester tested upstream and downstream on the Withlacoochee River.

WWALS water quality test results will be available this evening.

Plated water samples from Cherry Creek, 2023:02:12 19:14:01, 31.0126826, -83.2698898

More pictures are below.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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CCSB

Cherry Creek South Branch below Napa Drive, 2023:02:12 17:06:26, 30.8972512, -83.2796953

NDDP

Napa Drive Detention Pond, 2023:02:12 17:03:47, 30.8963082, -83.2794055

LLD

Cherry Creek Culverts, Lake Laurie Drive, Sallas Mahone Elementary School in distance, 2023:02:12 17:27:50, 30.8949575, -83.2825453

LLDLS

Movie: B&G Club Lift Station, (56M) 30.8949575, -83.2825453

CCR

Lake Cleve @ Cherry Creek Road

CCLS

Cherry Creek LS#2 Station, 2023:02:12 18:01:37, 30.9044666, -83.3019691

TD

Movie: The Dip, Lake Cleve, Cherry Creek, 2023:02:12 18:01:58, (71M) 30.9044973, -83.3020226

CCMB

Cherry Creek Mitigation Bank, 2023:02:12 18:12:05, 30.9044701, -83.3019675

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Path to Monument: Lake Cleve, 2023:02:12 18:12:56, 30.9044701, -83.3019675

WQ

Four water samples from Cherry Creek, 2023:02:12 19:01:12, 31.0126730, -83.2699180

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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