All clear, Withlacoochee River 2021-05-20

Update 2021-05-28: No rain, clean Withlacoochee River 2021-05-27 .

Good news: all clear on the Little and Withlacoochee Rivers for this weekend! That’s as far as E. coli in numerous water quality samples. And the Alapaha River, too, from the one datapoint we have.

[All clear, many samples, three rivers, Swim Guide]
All clear, many samples, three rivers, Swim Guide

Thanks to WWALS tester Elizabeth Brunner for the GA 122 sites Tuesday: Folsom Bridge on the Little River, Hagan Bridge on the Withlacoochee River, and Lakeland Boat Ramp on the Alapaha River. For Thursday, thanks to Bobby McKenzie for testing Troupville Boat Ramp on the Little River and the pictures of the too-low Withlacoochee River at Langdale Park and GA 133. Thanks to Michael Bachrach and Jacob Bachrach in the bug suit for Knights Ferry, Nankin, and State Line Boat Ramps Thursday. Thanks to Gus Cleary for Cleary Bluff Monday and Thursday. Thanks to WWALS Testing Committee Chair Suzy Hall for wrangling review of results.

Thanks to Madison Health for State Line, Sullivan Launch, and FL 6 Thursday.

Valdosta was again asleep at the wheel.

Here’s the chart:

[All clear, Withlacoochee River 2021-05-14-20]
All clear, Withlacoochee River 2021-05-14-20
For context and the entire WWALS composite spreadsheet of Georgia and Florida water quality results, rainfall, and spills, see:
https://wwals.net/issues/testing/

And the all-green Swim Guide map:

[Swim Guide: all clear, Withlacoochee River, Little River 2021-05-20]
Swim Guide: all clear, Withlacoochee River, Little River 2021-05-20

There is more to report, from last week, and sewage spills from Quitman and Ashburn the previous week. Those will have to be separate blog posts.

There are more pictures from these tests on the WWALS website:
https://wwals.net/pictures/2021-05-20–wq

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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