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3/29/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
Ochlockonee River flooding
NWS: High fire danger
Water news for Friday, March 29, 2024 12 pm EDT
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 331 am EDT March 29
This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North and Central Georgia:
HIGH FIRE DANGER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING
FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA DUE TO LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES...Relative Humidities of 25 percent or less can be expected for 4 or more hours this afternoon into the evening. Winds will be northwest to west at 5 to 10 MPH.
With dry fuels, high fire danger conditions can be expected. Please refer to your local burn permitting authorities whether you may burn outdoors. If you do burn outside, use extreme caution.
Impacting Dade-Walker-Catoosa-Whitfield-Murray-Fannin-Gilmer-Union-Towns-
Chattooga-Gordon-Pickens-Dawson-Lumpkin-White-Floyd-Bartow-Cherokee-Forsyth-Hall-Banks-Jackson-Madison-Polk-Paulding-Cobb-North Fulton-Gwinnett-Barrow-Clarke-Oconee-Oglethorpe-Wilkes-Haralson-Carroll-Douglas-South Fulton-DeKalb-Rockdale-Walton-Newton-Morgan-Greene-Taliaferro-Heard-Coweta-Fayette-Clayton-Spalding-Henry-Butts-Jasper-Putnam-Hancock-Warren-Troup-Meriwether-Pike-Upson-Lamar-Monroe-Jones-Baldwin-Washington-Glascock-Jefferson-Harris-Talbot-Taylor-Crawford-Bibb-Twiggs-Wilkinson-Johnson-Emanuel-Muscogee-Chattahoochee-Marion-Schley-Macon-Peach-Houston-Bleckley-Laurens-Treutlen-Stewart-Webster-Sumter-Dooly-Crisp-Pulaski-Wilcox-Dodge-Telfair-Wheeler-
Montgomery-Toombs Counties
Drinking Water Advisories
Dade County Water Authority has lifted a BWA following a water leak and service disruption March 27. The outage impacted the unincorporated community of Rising Fawn customers from Cornerstone Market to Ruby Lane on Hwy 157.
Flood Tracker provisional data from USGS streamflow monitors
Thirty-seven streamflow gauges record flooding in the USA Friday, up from twenty-five yesterday. WT tracks the nation's most common natural disaster in New York, Ohio, Georgia and Louisiana. As of this report, twelve monitors in the four states above mentioned indicate active flooding.
Georgia, Day 23: Gulf of Mexico basin has an active flood going on today for the first time since Flint River flooding ended at Bainbridge on March 18. This is the first we have heard from Ochlockonee River, flooding just after 9 am this morning as observed and recorded across the GA line near Concord, Florida. On the Atlantic side of the drainage divide, Alabaha River is back on the flood radar at GA 203 near Blackshear, overtaking flood stage for the second time in a week. Alabaha was late to join in the March flooding frenzy, waiting until March 23 to make a three day excursion out of the channel. That flood stopped on Tuesday this week, and back again yesterday, running and inch over flood stage at this report. Little Satilla and Satilla Rivers are actively flooding near Offerman and Atkinson, respectively. Savannah River is still more than three feet over flood stage near Cylo; Altamaha River running almost a foot over near Baxley, Altamaha tributary Ohoopee River is as high as yesterday, if not not higher, ten to eleven inches over flood stage near Reidsville.
For New York, east state streamflows run normal to much above normal, the highest flows occurring now in the Delaware River watershed and Long Island creeks and streams. Quite the opposite, the west interior and counties bordering Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are below normal to much below normal, with moderate hydrologic drought on Alleghany River watershed in the southwest and a larger area of west interior Finger Lakes region rated below normal on the drought map Friday.
In Louisiana, Pearl River, the east state border continues to overflow near Bogalusa in Washington Parish and at the Town of Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish. In northwest LA, Bayou Dorcheat is still flooding near Springhill and Bayou Bodcau is still six and a half feet above flood stage near Shreveport. On the west LA border, the Sabine River runs three inches over flood stage near the Ruliff, TX monitoring station maintained by the Texas-Oklahoma Water Science Center.
Ohio streamflows map resembles that of New York today, below normal in the west, normal in the east. As of this report there is no active flooding or high flows.
See black tags on the map for active flood, blue for high flow, 99th percentile or more.
Hazardous Spills
Heavy rain events in Dekalb County often come with an especially nasty side effect. Callers to Georgia EPD report overflowing manholes and raw sewage escaping into the creeks on both sides of the state divide. North Dekalb creeks collect runoff heading for the Chattahoochee River system in the Gulf of Mexico basin. South Dekalb creeks run to Lake Jackson, the Ocmulgee River of the Atlantic drainage basin. During the heavy rains this month, more than 750 thousand gallons of raw sewage is reported to have overflowed from manholes into the watersheds. In 2022, WTGA reported 10 million gallons of sewage impacted the creeks flowing into Lake Jackson, the head of the Ocmulgee River. Dekalb County has a strategy to reduce these stormwater overflows, WTGA investigates. More to follow.
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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