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3/30/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
Dry and windy conditions for north and central Georgia
NWS: High fire danger
Water news for Saturday, March 30, 2024 1007 am EDT
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 315 am EDT March 30
HIGH FIRE DANGER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING FOR PARTS OF 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 west or southwest at 5 to 10 mph. Gusts to around 20 mph will be possible during the afternoon.
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 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, specifically those water customers from Cornerstone Market to Ruby Lane on Hwy 157.
Flood Tracker provisional data from USGS streamflow monitors
Thirty-four streamflow gauges record flooding in the USA Saturday, down from thirty-seven yesterday. WT tracks the nation's most common natural disaster dynamics through New York, Ohio, Georgia and Louisiana. As of this report, eleven monitors indicate active flooding; 7 in Georgia and 4 in Louisiana.
Georgia, March Flood Day 24: Gulf of Mexico basin continues to record one flood location, this being south of the Georgia-Florida line. Ochlockonee River registers provisional measurement of two inches above flood stage Saturday morning near Concord, Florida. On the Atlantic side of the drainage divide, Alabaha River runs right on flood stage Saturday morning at GA 203 near Blackshear. Little Satilla and Satilla Rivers are actively flooding near Offerman and Atkinson, runnning a foot over and close to a foot and a half over flood stage, respectively. Savannah River is receding, less than three feet out of the channel near Cylo this morning. Altamaha River running more than a foot over near Baxley, with blackwater tributary Ohoopee River a foot over near Reidsville.
New York State streamflows run normal to above normal down the east side, two monitors indicate much above normal flows on Long Island and one much above normal in the Delaware River watershed, a slowing of the above seasonal normal trend. In the other direction, the west interior has gone further toward drought overnight, most streamflows much below normal, just one station reading normal flow volume west of Ithaca. Moderate hydrologic drought remains on Alleghany River watershed in the southwest, Chemung River watershed joins the drought map at below normal. Genesee River watershed records much below normal volume from the top to the outlet at Rochester. Finger Lakes region remains below normal on the drought map Saturday.
In Louisiana, Sabine River on the west state line crawled back into its channel near Ruliff, TX last night around 10 pm, currently running two inches below flood stage and dropping. Pearl River on the east state border continues to overflow a foot and a half over near Bogalusa in Washington Parish and half a foot over flood stage at the Town of Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish. In northwest LA, Bayou Dorcheat is still four inches over near Springhill and Bayou Bodcau is down slightly overnight, a little more than six feet above flood stage near Shreveport.
Ohio's current streamflow map resembles New York streamflows again, below normal to much below normal with one extreme low flow in the west and central state, primarily normal flow volume in the east. As of this report there are no active flooding stations or high flows measured in Ohio State network of the USGS.
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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