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9/2/2024
WT Staff
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September 2, 2024 updated 406 pm EDT
Macon BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Ocmulgee River watershed: Macon Water Authority in Bibb County issued a BWA yesterday for several areas after a water main break at the corner of Zebulon Rd and Bass Rd. See the yellow tag on the map for the areas affected. According to US EPA, Macon Water Authority has no violations and fully compliant with SDWA. The distribution system involves 1664 miles of water main ranging from 1.5 to 54 inches diameter. The treatment plant supplies finished drinking water to more than 55 thousand customers.
Suwannee River watershed: The water is back on in Argyle Village, weeks after Tropical Storm Debby stomped through Clinch County with widespread flooding. Argyle customers were advised to boil water as service was restored, a necessary precaution following the flooding of groundwater wells. The areas around the Town well heads has been sanitized, the system has been disinfected, any stagnant water in the system will have been flushed out and authorities will advise when the water is potable.
The City of Gordon has issued a Boil Water Advisory until further Notice, according to the Mayor of the City on Friday, August 30.
For more information on Georgia's drinking water facilities, see the latest EPA compliance stats here.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 523 am Sep 2 by NWS Peachtree City
Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon into evening.
A few storms could become strong to severe with the main threats
being damaging wind gusts, frequent lightning, and heavy
rainfall.
Scattered thunderstorms are expected each afternoon and evening with the main threats being gusty winds, heavy rainfall, and frequent
lightning.
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.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS), Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) and State sources where available
When we thought it could not possibly get worse, the number of active bluegreen blooms in NY lakes and reservoirs has gone from three hundred and fifty-one to four hundred over the weekend. Seneca Lake alone hosts 88 HABs, the Finger Lakes accounting for well over half of the HAB activity noted state wide. Reports made prior to August 19 have been transferred to the archives, now 683 files on the log books for 2024 to date. The latest impacted water body list is available here, updates are in progress.
The new image of Lake Champlain was snapped September 1 and analyzed by NCCOS for HAB activity. Here we have a partially cloudy view of Lake Champlain with the filters applied to show the HAB activity. The Baie Missisquoi HAB is no longer seen at all, the St Albans Bay HAB is widespread shore to shore at 700 to 800 thousand cells per ml, the Lake Carmi HAB is lakewide, around the same concentration 700 to 800 thousand cells. The wind speed is not recorded on these images, if over 4 mph the wind could be causing the bloom mat to mix down into the water column. An image taken on Aug 29 showed the Baie Missisquoi HAB along the north shore in Canada at 2 to 3 million cells per ml by the concentration color scale and Maquam Bay showing the first signs of HAB for the season, low concentration below 100 thousand cells per 100 ml. Water east of Shelburne Bay, likely Shelburne Pond, continues with a lakewide HAB 2 million cells. See the NCCOS color images, here.
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