Tag Archives: Alapahoochee River

Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-04-10:
Packet: Hospital Authority appointment, 6 rezonings, paving and resurfacing, subdivision infrastructure, probationers @ LCC 2024-05-13.

For an hour and 42 minutes the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
discussed and recommended for or against eight rezoning cases.

Two Lowndes County Commissioners attended:
Scottie Orenstein and Joyce Evans.
The Lowndes County Commission will hear these cases this week,
or so we assume, since they have no agenda posted yet.

At the Planning Commission, nobody spoke against most of the cases on the agenda, and the Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of those,
sometimes with conditions.

Only two cases were very slightly controversial.


[Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024]

Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024

Clint Joyner said, “I’m telling you, Continue reading →

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-05-10:
Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29.

The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) will be busy this evening,
maybe with a packed audience,
to review eight rezoning cases.


[Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29]

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Considering waterways, these cases seem unremarkable.

The Lake Park

W. Marion Ave. rezoning is near Long Pond, but not on it.

The
Valdosta
Williams Street rezoning apparently drains into One Mile Branch, which goes into Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River, but is not very near that creek.

The
Skipper Bridge Road rezoning near Franklinville Road
is uphill from the Withlacoochee River, but not near to it.
This is the one case with no utilities, but it is for a single house.

The
River Road rezoning backs up onto Pebble Creek, which runs into Crawford Branch into the Withlacoochee River,
but that area is recognized as wetlands on the plat, with a detention pond.

The
Dasher Grove Road and Val Del Road rezoning
includes two creeks that run into Sermons Branch, into the Withlacoochee River, but at least they are recognized as wetlands and avoided in the conceptual plan.

The
Old US 41 rezoning is near Sermons Branch, which runs into the Withlacoochee River.

The
Whitewater Road rezoning
is near creeks that end up in the Withlacoochee River.

The
Carter Lane rezoning is at the top of
Caney Branch, which runs into Enoch Creek, the Alapahoochee River, and the Alapaha River.

Here is the

agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is
on the LAKE website.


Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~

~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~

Monday, April 22, 2024 5:30 P.M. Work Session

Monday, April 29, 2024 5:30 P.M. Regular Session

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

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Videos: One Lowndes County case, solar fence, Lake Park, GA @ ZBOA 2019-08-06

Nancy Hobby recused herself before the
lengthy discussion of the one

ZBOA case for August 2019, which was actually in Lowndes County,

VAR-2019-09 — Tycor Farms (6734 Georgia Highway 376, Lake Park) Request for a variance….
or

6530 GA 376,
according to a followup letter from the applicant’s representative.

[Notice Sign]

Photo: Gretchen Quarterman, Notice Sign

There was still nothing about the wetlands around the place, leading to
Enoch Creek, then into the Alapahoochee River,
into the Alapaha, the Suwannee, and on to the Gulf.

[Alapaha River Water Trail Map]

Map: John S. Quarterman, from WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Map.

However, the likely wetlands seem to be along the eastern edge of the cleared area,
so one can guess the solar panels are not going there.

[Lowndes County Tax Assessor]

Map: Lowndes County Tax Assessor, Parcel 0222 002, Tycor Farms LLC, 6530 GA HWY 376, Lake Park, GA 31636.

Nobody from the audience spoke for or against the application.
The result was: Continue reading →

Videos and packet: Millage, SPLOST VIII, Wastewater, roads, bridges, mosquitos, Construction Board @ LCC 2019-08-12

County Manager Joe Pritchard said Finance Director Stephanie Black has

received a millage report from the Tax Commissioner.
He and she will prepare something from it for the Lowndes County Commissioners for a later meeting.


The board packet is

on the LAKE website,
in response to a LAKE open records request.

Below are Continue reading →

$1.5 mllion on wastewater, SPLOST VIII, roads, bridges, mosquitos, Construction Board @ LCC 2019-08-12

The resolution to reimpose the SPLOST tax as
SPLOST VIII,
was not included with

the agenda for the tax-paying public to see.
LAKE has filed an open records request for the entire board packet.
Perhaps the county will supply it before they vote tomorrow.

[Land Application Site]

Land Application Site

Four bids were received for
LAS and Pump Station Improvements
with the high bid at $3.3 million, and the low at $2.5 million,
but apparently the county negotiated the low bidder,
Doyle Hancock & Sons, down to
$1,520,858.00.
This is “for improvements to the LAS [Land Application Site, aka wastewater spray field], Bevel Creek, Francis Lake, and Coleman Road lift stations.”
The LAS is between Grassy Pond and Pike Pond, a few thousand feet from the GA-FL line, in the Withlacoochee River watershed. Continue reading →

One Valdosta Lowndes County case, solar fence, Lake Park, GA @ ZBOA 2019-08-06

Update 2019-09-24:
LAKE videos.

Only one case on the

ZBOA agenda today:

VAR-2019-09 — Tycor Farms (6734 Georgia Highway 376, Lake Park) Request for a variance….

[Aerial photograph with buffers marked]

Aerial photograph with buffers marked

Oops, it’s not really at that address; that’s a neighbor’s house.
Also, the Technical Review Committee (TRC)
changed from recommending denial due to no hardship
to recommending
approval.

Actually it’s at 6530 GA 376,
according to a followup letter from the applicant’s representative.

And it’s pretty obvious from the applicant’s aerial map that it’s
next to a creek,
which as it happens runs into Enoch Creek, then into the Alapahoochee River,
into the Alapaha, the Suwannee, and on to the Gulf.
Yet I don’t see a word about wetlands in the application.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Valdosta Planning and Zoning Office

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Lowndes County Zoning Office

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

August 6, 2019

2:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Videos: KLVB, Drinking, driving, and air conditioning @ LCC 2015-03-23




Keep Lowndes-Valdosta Beautiful did cleanups in wetlands in
both the Withlacoochee and the Alapaha River watersheds, plus
at exit 22, and the general illegal trash dumping situation came up.
Did the county change the speed limit on your road?

The County Engineer said only in one area, but they didn’t publish the list.
Also discussed
were
a

GEMA grant application, a

proposal for engineering services for Exits 22 and 29,

HVAC for county buildings, and a

liquor license.
Here’s
the agenda
with links to the videos and a few notes.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2015  8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2015 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Alapahoochee Historic Farm Heritage Days 2015-04-10


300x413 Flyer, in Alapahoochee Historic Farm Heritage Days, by John S. Quarterman, 10 April 2015
25th Semi-Annual Alapahoochee Historic Farm/Heritage Days will take
place April 10-11 from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Located at
202 Bethel Church Road in Echols County.

Here’s

their flyer on their facebook page. Continue reading →

Valdosta sewage into Alapaha River watershed three times in February 2015

Valdosta didn’t mention it and the Florida Department of Health doesn’t seem to know it,

300x219 Knights Creek in Valdosta, in Knights Creek, Valdosta, Georgia, by USGS Streamer, for WWALS.net, 28 February 2015
but
Knights Creek is in the Alapaha River watershed.
Valdosta spilled sewage into it twice in February.
Plus that 16 February spill into Dukes Bay Canal
also ends up in the Alapaha River.
But never you mind,
Valdosta also spilled
into the Withlacoochee River through the usual Sugar Creek.
Somehow I don’t think all these spills are not Valdosta’s fault.
Seems like it’s time for Valdosta to finish fixing its wastewater problem.
And since the most recent spills were due to rainfall directly on
Valdosta,
the

levee proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers on Sugar Creek
at the Withlacoochee River wouldn’t help,
nor would it help at any time for spills directly into the Withlacoochee
River at GA 133, nor for Dukes Bay Canal nor Knights Creek,
which flow into the Alapaha River.

News Release, Florida Department of Health (FDH), 27 February 2015,

Florida Department of Health Advises of Possible Wastewater Contamination, Continue reading →

Alapahoochee Antique Tractor Show & Historic Farm Heritage Days


Logo, in Alapahoochee Antique Tractor Show & Historic Farm Heritage Days, by Lake Park Chamber of Commerce, 24 October 2014
That’s a Lake Park postal address, but the street address
is actually in Echols County.
Received from

Lake Park Chamber of Commerce. yesterday. -jsq


300x490 Flyer, in Alapahoochee Antique Tractor Show & Historic Farm Heritage Days, by Lake Park Chamber of Commerce, 24 October 2014

ALAPAHOOCHEE

HISTORIC FARM / HERITAGE DAYS

DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION

OCTOBER 1424 – 25, 2014 (FRI/SAT)

9 AM-4 PM

ECHOLS COUNTY, 202 BETHEL CHURCH ROAD.

LAKE PARK. GA 31636

Preserving Echols County & Area Heritage of 1900’s

  • Non-profit
  • NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ALLOWED
  • Free admission

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