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6/2/2024
WT Staff
 WEEKEND WATER REPORT
Sunday, June 2, 2024
NWS: Hazardous Weather Outlook - strong storms Sunday
June 2, 2024 updated 1147 am EDT
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by National Weather Service Peachtree City forecast center 415 am Sunday June 2
Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening across much of the area. A few strong storms will be possible with locally damaging wind gusts as the primary hazard.
More of the same, isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected across portions of the forecast area Monday through Thursday. Rain chances will be maximized in the afternoon and evening each day. Widespread severe weather is not anticipated at this time.
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.
HABs Tracker
from Georgia Healthy Beaches, Coastal Health
Jekyll Island permanent beach advisories issued for high bacterial levels at Clam Creek Beach and St. Andrews Beach, see the latest advisories and lab test results here.
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science satellite monitoring program for harmful algal blooms in US water bodies has a dozen monitoring programs in effect. Three of these are covered by the WT USA Media Group, including New York's Lake Champlain, Ohio's Lake Erie west basin and Louisiana's southeast including Lake Pontchartrain, Black Bay, Lake Borgne and Chandeleur Sound. The technology allows us to monitor the presence, extent and concentration of HABs in calm conditions where no cloud cover obscures the image. Until the NCCOS begins to provide an imaging program covering Georgia water bodies, we rely on ground observation and public reporting of suspicious algal mats. All suspicious blooms are to be reported to the Environmental Protection Division, who will then make these reports public. See the HAB Tracker report here for CDC and federal EPA guidance on harmful algal blooms. Email any suspicious algal mats with photos to the Georgia EPD, or to info@wtga.us so that we can share the locations on the map to the right.
WT USA Flows and Flood Tracker provisional data from the network of USGS streamflow monitors
Forty-three streamflow gauges record active floodings in the USA Sunday, Saturday, down from forty-eight Saturday. Two floods occur inside the WT coverage area, both in Louisiana.
Region 5: Vermilion River breached flood briefly Sunday morning at Surrey St in Lafayette, over-running the channel from 3 am until 945 am. Peak flow was reached by 4 am and the flood is already over as of this update. Region 4 flooding continues on the Calcasieu River near Glenmora, currently signalling a gauge height seven inches over the channel on a slow declining trend. Border Sabine River continues to overflow the lower channel in southwest Louisiana this morning, running a level nine to ten inches over minor flood stage. NWS calls for showers in the northwest again today. As the ground is saturated after a week of rain, we could see more surface runoff leading to river flooding. More to follow. See black tags indicating flow volume and gauge height, flows updated daily here.
As many drinking water facilities are supplied from surface water reservoirs, the streamflow situation is pertinent to both drinking water supply and quality. High flows can stir up sediment and cause turbidity in the reservoirs, requiring additional treatments to render the water potable. Low flow volume is linked to warmer temperatures in the reservoir and can be an issue for water quality where HABs are present. WT tracks streamflow trends with an eye to the impacts on drinking water supply and quality in each of the state's watersheds. Check the watershed layer on the map to see the direction of flow and streamflows that may be impacting drinking water today.
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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