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Watershed seminar tomorrow in Tifton
Boating, walking, birding, hunting, fishing: our watersheds provide us all that, plus what goes in upstream comes out in your drinking water. Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little Rivers:...
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A rezoning, wastewater pump repair, solid waste RFP, and community planning...
A rezoning for well and septic, Bevel Creek is back with a lift station pump repair, and something about an Alapaha waterline: water, water, water. Plus a beer license, refunding revenue bonds, and...
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Videos: Water, water, water, waste! and planning? @ LCC 2012-10-08
The big news was the waste disposal railroad, but the Lowndes County Commission also heard about three water issues (one a rezoning), plus a beer license, revenue bonds, community planning month, and...
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Video Playlist @ LCC 2012-10-09
The big item at Tuesday’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session was, same as at Monday’s Work Session, the waste management railroad, terminating in a decision. Other topics included citizen Karen...
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Plant the seeds for viable water future
This AJC op-ed is about coastal wetlands, but much of it applies to wetlands such as cypress swamps and streams in Lowndes County and the rest of central south Georgia, especially since our state...
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Putting conservation into conservatives —John S. Quarterman
My op-ed in the VDT today. -jsq Gov. Deal (WABE, 14 Nov 2012) temporarily forgot that “conservative” includes conserving something, like Theodore Roosevelt and national parks, or when Franklin D....
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What does Lowndes Comprehensive Plan say about river corridor protection?
Is the Lowndes County Commission a “Qualified Local Government”? Georgia state law says perennial river corridors shall be protected, all of the major rivers in Lowndes County (Alapaha, Withlacoochee,...
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County response to 10 inches of rain —Ashley Tye @ LCC 2013-02-26
Emergency Services Director Ashley Tye spoke about Local weather conditions at the 26 Febuary 2013 Lowndes County Commission meeting. He said the Withlacoochee River at Skipper Bridge Road was...
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Watershed meeting organized by Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) didn’t know there was a large water problem hereabouts, but now they do, and they want to take a watershed-wide approach, from the headwaters to the Gulf of...
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Ask Georgia Power to conserve our water –Garry Gentry for WWALS @ GA PSC...
Garry Gentry read the WWALS Watershed Coalition letter at the Georgia Public Service Commission meeting Tuesday 18 June 2013. The recent rains have swollen our blackwater rivers, Withlacoochee,...
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