Update 2022-10-28: Bad Beatty Branch and Cat Creek, good downstream Withlacoochee River 2022-10-27.

All the WWALS water quality results for this Thursday were pretty clean. We have nothing new on GA 133 since Valdosta’s Monday results there were bad. My guess is whatever that was has probably washed away by now, but we don’t know.

So I’d say probably OK for swimming, boating, and fishing this weekend.

Come on down to the State Line Boat Ramp for the WWALS Boomerang paddle race, from Georgia into Florida and back!
https://wwals.net/pictures/boomerang2022

Chart, River, Swim Guide

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

The only bad spot is that Monday GA 133 result in the Valdosta data. That upstream incident that started last week. It may have been caused by upstream rain on Thursday, October 12, 2022. What it washed into the Withlacoochee River is a mystery that we are working on resolving.

Clean Water Quality, Charts 2022-10-20
For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of water quality results, rainfall, and sewage spills, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing

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

Thanks to Michael and Jacob Bachrach for their three downstream Withlacoochee River sites at Knights Ferry, Nankin, and State Line Boat Ramps.

Thanks to new WWALS tester Kimberly Tanner for her last week result at Naylor Beach.

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

People who go to Knights Ferry and Nankin, could you please stop damaging our water trail signs?

Nankin Boat Ramp Sign, Withlacoochee River @ Clyattville-Nankin Road 2022-10-20

Except for GA 133, all the WWALS “beaches” are marked green on

Map: Clean Wq, Swim Guide 2022-10-20

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 2022-10-20

LBR

Lakeland Boat Ramp, Alapaha River @ GA 122 2022-10-20

HBL

Hagan Bridge Landing, Withlacoochee River @ GA 122 2022-10-20

KFBR

Knights Ferry Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River 2022-10-20

NBR

Nankin Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ Clyattville-Nankin Road 2022-10-20

SLBR

State Line Boat Ramp, Withlacoochee River @ GA 31 2022-10-20

-jsq

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