Update 2022-12-18:Pretty clean rivers 2022-12-16.

As clean as we’ve ever seen, except for that lingering too-high E. coli for GA 133 on Monday from Valdosta.

All the more recent WWALS tests on the Little, Withlacoochee, and Alapaha Rivers have been very clean.

No new sewage spills have been reported in the Suwannee River Basin in Georgia or Florida. No rain is predicted for many days.

So happy boating this weekend, except at GA 133, and there’s not enough water there anyway, and you really shouldn’t be putting in there at any time.

Chart, Rivers, Swim Guide Map

So clean that for the first time ever we observed the Withlacoochee cleaner than the Alapaha. But the Alapaha River still tested very clean.

Clean Rivers, Charts 2022-12-08
For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of water quality results, rainfall, and sewage spills, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing

Thanks to Elizabeth Brunner for her usual three GA 122 Thursday test sites: Folsom Bridge on the Little River, Hagan Bridge on the Withlacoochee River, and Lakeland Boat Ramp on the Alapaha River.

Thanks to WWALS testing trainer Gretchen Quarterman for the Tuesday result from Staten Road on the Withlacoochee River, where she was training a new tester.

Thanks to Michael 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 except for red GA 133, I’ve marked all the WWALS “beaches” for which we have recent data green on

Map: Clean Rivers, Swim Guide 2022-12-08

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 join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

FBL

Folsom Bridge Landing, Little River @ GA 122 2022-12-08

TBR

Troupville Boat Ramp, Little River @ GA 133 2022-12-08

LBR

Lakeland Boat Ramp, Alapaha River @ GA 122 2022-12-08

HBL

Hagan Bridge Landing, Withlacoochee River @ GA 122 2022-12-08

staten

Staten Road upstream, Withlacoochee River @ Staten Road 2022-12-06

NBR

Nankin Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Clyattville-Nankin Road 2022-12-08

SLBR

State Line Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ GA 133 2022-12-08

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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