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12/1/2023
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
Flood risk today continues
NWS Hazardous Weather Statement
Friday, December 1, 2023 - last updated 455 pm EST
NWS Hazardous Weather Outlook
issued 1004 am Friday Dec 1
Widespread showers and scattered thunderstorms are likely. Rain may be heavy at times with localized flooding of rivers, creeks, and streams also possible.
Impacting Baldwin-Banks-Barrow-Bartow-Bibb-Bleckley-Butts-Carroll-Catoosa-Chattahoochee-Chattooga-Cherokee-Clarke-Clayton-Cobb-Coweta-Crawford-Crisp-Dade-Dawson-DeKalb-Dodge-Dooly-Douglas-Emanuel-Fannin-Fayette-Floyd-Forsyth-Gilmer-Glascock-Gordon-Greene-Gwinnett-Hall-Hancock-Haralson-Harris-Heard-Henry-Houston-Jackson-Jasper-Jefferson-Johnson-Jones-Lamar-Laurens-Lumpkin-Macon-Madison-Marion-Meriwether-Monroe-Montgomery-Morgan-Murray-Muscogee-Newton-North Fulton-Oconee-Oglethorpe-Paulding-Peach-Pickens-Pike-Polk-Pulaski-Putnam-Rockdale-Schley-South Fulton-Spalding-Stewart-Sumter-Talbot-Taliaferro-Taylor-Telfair-Toombs-Towns-Treutlen-Troup-Twiggs-Union-Upson-Walker-Walton-Warren-Washington-Webster-Wheeler-White-Whitfield-Wilcox-Wilkes-Wilkinson Counties
For the weekend:
Showers and thunderstorms will be possible into Sunday afternoon. Localized flooding of rivers, creeks, and streams may be possible in areas with persistent and heavier precipitation.
Drinking Water Advisories
Demorest has issued a BWA due to a water leak yesterday. See the yellow tag on the map for details.
Forsyth County has issued a BWA following a water main break yesterday. Customers connecting in and around the Shady Grove Road area are to boil water until further notice.
Streamflows situation from USGS Waterwatch gages throughout Georgia
One gage is picking up a high flow in the Ocmulgee River watershed near Macon as of this update Friday. Tobesofkee Creek is flowing at the 99th percentile, measured at 7.8 ft deep at 1710 cubic feet per second. Flood stage is 20 feet at this location in the channel.
Four streamflow gages are recording low values across north Georgia Friday, an improvement from this morning where six gages were lit, and yesterday ten monitors were recording 2nd and 1st percentile flows. Flows listed low are trending upward by Friday afternoon. See the map for flow depth and volume with regular updates as the rivers rise.
Drought situation from USGS Waterwatch 7-day average streamflow compared with historic flow
Mississippi basin's Upper Coosa River Whitfield and Murray Counties jumped up to severe hydrologic drought status overnight. Next on the drought severity index, the Atlantic basin's Upper Savannah River watershed at extreme as of yesterday, from Rabun to north Hart County. The extreme drought rating drops off to below normal to Screven County, including Banks, Madison and Oglethorpe Counties as yesterday.
On the Mississippi River - Gulf of Mexico side of the Georgia divide, the Upper Coosa River watershed holds severe drought status, with no surface area of the north escaping the drought map Friday. All watersheds in both drainage basins are drought rated, from the Georgia north line to the Upper Flint River and Ocmulgee Rivers. A moderate drought rating in Upper Chattahoochee watershed now extends from the headwaters in Union County down to northwest Muscogee County. An area of the Lower Flint River shows up below normal Friday, joining the Ochlockonee below normal in the southwest.
USGS seven-day average streamflows at each monitoring location are rated against the historic average flow volume for this date, determining the drought map for the day. The drought map shows areas rated below normal, moderate drought, severe drought and extreme drought.
Hazardous Spills files released from Georgia Department of Environmental Conservation
A spill incident report pertaining to the Coosa River watershed indicates a vehicle has been placed in a lake to facilitate SCUBA diving training, impacting state waters Woodring Branch and Lewis Branch with auto waste fluids earlier this month.
Two barrels of oil were spilled on a dock off Newcastle St in Brunswick during a failed transfer operation. Two gallons of oil product are reported impacting the East River, a tributary of the Satilla River in the southeast Atlantic basin. The report states that absorbent pads were used to recover the oil on the dock, the oil in the river was unrecoverable due to current.
Another spill report for the Coosa River watershed files, a spill of oil on the roadway Route 61 and Smyrna Ramhurst Rd south of Chatsworth left a slick 60 m long, according to a report released by EPD. The report says no soil or water was impacted.
See the Spills button to the right of the map for a list of spill incidents reported to EPD in Georgia this year.
HABs update from Georgia Department of Natural Resources - Coastal Resources Division Shellfish and Water Quality Unit
Two permanent beach advisories remain in effect on Jekyll Island including Jekyll Clam Creek Beach on the north end and St Andrews Beach on the south end. Lab tests on October 16 samples show the enterococcus bacteria levels below the health advisory threshold. Clam Creek Beach came in at 20 cfu per 100 ml and 7 cfu per 100 ml for St Andrews.
Public notification of the location of harmful algal blooms helps to protect pets, swimmers and waders from venturing into areas with known HABs and helps recreational water users find clear access points on state water bodies. Observations of HABs can be reported here by email, info@wtga.us for public notification on our map and through SMS alerts. The identity of the reporting party is not included in our notifications. Include a photo and location geo-tag so that the bloom can be accurately placed on the map and confirmed by local authorities.
USGS Provisional Data Statement
Data are provisional and subject to revision until they have been thoroughly reviewed and received final approval. Current condition data relayed by satellite or other telemetry are automatically screened to not display improbable values until they can be verified.
Provisional data may be inaccurate due to instrument malfunctions or physical changes at the measurement site. Subsequent review based on field inspections and measurements may result in significant revisions to the data.
Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Information concerning the accuracy and appropriate uses of these data or concerning other hydrologic data may be obtained from the USGS.
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