Walnut Creek Watershed Coalition - WC2

12/23/2025

Weakening the current water rules means more polluted rivers, more flooding, and more costs for communities and water-dependent businesses. It’s time to speak up.

12/23/2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cave-of-wonders-where-prehistoric-bees-made-nests-in-the-bones-of-animals-eaten-by-colossal-owls/

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave where they used the bones of prey animals rather than soft soil. The groundbreaking discovery was made in a Caribbean cave that narrowly escaped being turned into someone’s to...

12/19/2025

WC2 adopted Turner Church Road from Charolais Drive to North Ola Road. Please Keep Henry Clean!

These signs are free and great advertising for Businesses, Churches, Scouts, or any group. We can all agree that road side litter is ugly!

Lets help them get to their goal of 7 more adopted roads by end of this year!

12/19/2025

And so it begins. The approved 100-acre “Villages At Ola” will begin construction activities soon. The first part of this action is the retrofitting and dredging of the old farm pond into a modern storm water detention basin. In addition to retrofitting the existing pond, three other storm basins are shown on the project plans, and these basins will also discharge into the Southwest Branch of Nails Creek.

Residents downstream of the development can expect increased water volumes, localized flooding, turbid discolored water, with heavy sediment loads and trash. Residents along Nails Creek are encouraged to notify the Henry County Storm Water Management Dept., or the Georgia Environmental Protection Division when these conditions occur.

Comments on the Buffer Variance should request trash collection devices, permanent basin management plans, and additional erosion and sediment controls beyond the minimum required by the GA Erosion Sediment and Control Act, to include all modern additional erosion and control measures recommended by the Atlanta Regional Commission, Metropolitan North GA Planning District.

It is unlikely this dredging project can be stopped, but land owners can begin documenting current conditions and any future degradation of their property.

12/18/2025

Please support this effort and contact the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to voice your concerns. Remember there are PFAS for-ever-chemicals in our drinking water in Henry County. You can use the ewg link to learn more about your drinking water.

12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/savannahriverkeeper

SRK is the primary guardian of the Savannah River striving to respect, protect and improve the river basin through education, advocacy, and action.

12/08/2025

The River Basin Center and American Rivers collaborate with local water utilities and others in South Metro Atlanta and Central Georgia to balance upstream needs for drinking water with downstream needs for wildlife, recreation and agriculture. Planning for the river became a real worry 25 years ago...

12/07/2025

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-underwater-tool-can-id-fish-from-their-sounds-46-species-so-far/

The FishEye Collaborative combined underwater sound recordings with a 360° camera to identify the sounds made by individual fish.

12/07/2025

Do deer species NEED non-native and invasive bushes to have enough forage?

Not according to Dr. James C Kroll. Also dubbed "Dr Deer", he is Professor Emeritus of Forest Wildlife Management.

He states that "Because whitetails are K-adapted species, meaning their population processes are mostly governed by habitat, the impact of invasive species of plants can be significant and insidious."

He has created a series of articles on what he calls the “Dirty Four” of invasive plants, as they relate to the White-tailed Deer. You can find the links to those articles in the comments!

12/06/2025

https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/alligator-blood-mercury-okefenokee-swamp-uga/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOgeBBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETE5emx2cG1yUG1VY1JmMlRhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHu3_-15e9gvEHq6lyvNYlzihvHKKa2e5NT5b4tX05smyiCMjnVuo0nhrGqs0_aem_LyEb0jmpYDexAFP81-Uakg

Researchers working in Georgia's swamps discovered something alarming in alligator blood, raising concerns about human health and safety.

12/05/2025