WWALS Event to Celebrate the Withlacoochee – And Assess Its Health

WWALS Event to Celebrate the Withlacoochee – And Assess Its Health

By T.S. Carter | SOUTH GEORGIA – Strides have been made in recent years to lessen raw sewage discharges into the Withlacoochee River  from Valdosta and other sources, river advocates say. Yet worries persist over accidental discharges sending liquid effluent down the Withlacoochee to Florida, where it flows into the Suwanee River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico, leaving fecal contamination. Details on the progress – or the lack of it – on prot…