Jon boat Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup, Langdale Park Boat Ramp 2024-08-25

Jon boat Withlacoochee River Chainsaw Cleanup, Langdale Park Boat Ramp 2024-08-25
I think that's eight big deadfalls and some littler stuff that we sawed, downstream on the Withlacoochee River Langdale Park Chainsaw Cleanup. Hurricane Debby and other storms left quite a bit of debris.
We had Phil Royce's jon boat with 3.5 hp outboard, the WWALS jon boat with 9.9 hp outboard, and TJ Johnson in a canoe.
I think there were four or five chainsaws among us, including the 24-inch Husqvarna 460 that the Wild Green Future Grant paid for, along with the 9.9 hp outboard. Plus TJ's handsaw.
So you want to know: after all this sawing, can you paddle from Langdale Park to Sugar Creek? Yes, at this water level, which was 120.13 feet NAVD88 on the Valdosta Gauge at US 41 or North Valdosta Road. The last deadfall we sawed Sunday was just above Sugar Creek. I declined to take the WWALS jon boat over that mess, because of the outboard, but you could paddle through it in a kayak or canoe.
As usual with such chainsaw cleanups, more will be needed as the water level goes down. For example, at least one of the big deadfalls we sawed has another under it about six inches submerged. That required tilting up the outboard to get back up over it.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for WWALS Watershed Coalition Inc. (WWALS).
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