Joe Adgie
wrote for the VDT today 23 October 2014,

Coalition: Sabal one of Dirty Dozen,

VALDOSTA — The Georgia Water Coalition has named the proposed
Sabal Trail pipeline as one of its Dirty Dozen for 2014, which
highlights “12 of the worst offenses to Georgia’s
waters,” according to the organization.

The pipeline is proposed to run under the Withlacoochee river, near
Valdosta.

Joe Adgie also took the first picture above, of
Logan Hulsey and Blake Clark
of
Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.)
at
yesterday’s protest in front of the Valdosta Sabal Trail office.
The other illustrations here are from

WWALS Watershed Coalition
about that
Dirty Dozen item #9,

Sabal Trail pipeline threatens Withlacoochee River and Floridan Aquifer,

In a

press release,
the GWC cited the risk of contaminating
southwest Georgia’s well water, rivers and streams, as well



as noise
and air pollution from a proposed compressor station situated near
Albany.

The GWC also cited the possible dangers of the pipeline, citing two
explosions in particular — a 2011 explosion in Alabama that
torched 65 acres of forest, and a 1994 explosion on a Spectra Energy
pipeline that ruined an apartment complex, leaving hundreds
homeless.

The story cited the dangers of sinkholes in karst limestone
such as encloses our Floridan Aquifer drinking water, and quoted
the GWC press release:

“Sinkholes are increasingly common in the region and may cause
pipeline leaks that could easily contaminate the underground
aquifers that serve as the drinking water source for many rural
residents”

-jsq