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10/1/2024
WT Staff
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October 1, 2024 1019 am EDT
Widespread Boil Water Advisories
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Fulton County: Atlanta has issued BWA for parts of the City from Martin L. King, Jr. Dr., south of I-20, to the City of Fairburn, the City of South Fulton, Chattahoochee Hills, Palmetto, and Union City. Atlanta Water System serves 1,089,893 residential customers and 98,585 wholesale customers from surface water, Chattahoochee River.
Southeast Georgia widespread BWAs due to power outages and loss of pressure in the aftermath of Helene, the following counties are under boil advisory: Camden, Chatham, Coffee, Cook, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Lowndes, McIntosh, Pierce, Screven, Wayne.
Coastal counties Boil water advisories for Liberty county: Anglers Edge, Lyman Hall, - Habersham, Limerick, Woodland Lakes, Yellow Bluff, Palms West Mobile Home Park, Halfmoon Villas and Marina, Zorn Subdivision, River View Subdivision, and Lake Pamona. Long County: Crawford – Deloach Rd Northeast, Cypress Creek, Davenport Ridge, Garrison Place, Horse Creek Farms, Huntington – Timberland, Mill Pond, Murray Crossing, Parish Crossing, Persimmon Estates, Way Station.
Richmond County: Augusta is under a system-wide BWA impacting all of Augusta Richmond-County following system wide low pressure reports from impacts caused by Hurricane Helene. Augusta -Richmond County Water System serves 204,000 customers sourced from surface water, Savannah River and Augusta Canal off Savannah River.
Clinch County: Argyle Water System has issued a system-wide BWA following power outage and loss of pressure caused by Hurricane Helene. This groundwater supplied system had barely recovered from Debby, now customers are boiling water again to ensure no microbiological contamination. Argyle Water System serves 173 customers from a groundwater source in the Suwannee River watershed.
Toombs County: Vidalia Water issued a system wide BWA Saturday due to power grid and water outages in the aftermath of Helene. Vidalia serves a population of 14909 from groundwater well source in the Altamaha River watershed.
With power outages all over the state, drinking water advisories will be widespread as power is restored and service resumes. More to follow.
Hazardous Weather Outlook from NWS Peachtree City 403 am EDT Tues Oct 1
Areas of river flooding will continue along the Ocmulgee, Ohoopee
and Oconee rivers in central Georgia.
Areas of river flooding will continue along the Ocmulgee river in
central Georgia through the end of the week.
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
Be alert for flooded roads which could be compromised or littered
with debris. Avoid travel until water levels subside and roads have
been cleared. Do not drive through places where flood waters cover
the road. Turn around, don`t drown!
See black tags on the map to the right for active flooding, blue tags for locations with high flow in danger of imminent flooding.
Streamflow Situation
from the network of monitoring stations of the USGS Georgia Water Science Center
Streamflows remain much above seasonal normal throughout the state as flooding continues on the major river systems of central and south Georgia. Large river channels have gathered the surface runoff deposited by Helene from watersheds on both sides of the Georgia height-of-land divide. On the Gulf of Mexico side of the drainage divide, Flint River is no longer flooding at any of the monitoring stations in the reference network. The high flow measured yesterday at GA26 near Montezuma peaked just short of flood stage, now on the decline. Ochlockonee River is no longer flooding in the upper channel in Georgia, still running 3 ft over the channel near Concord, FL. Adjacent Suwannee River watershed flooding continues through the Little River at Adel and Hahira, the Alapaha River is no longer flooding at GA125 near Irwinville, still two and a half feet out of the channel near Alapaha in Berrien County. Withlacoochee River runs six feet over the channel at Skipper Bridge Rd near Bemiss, now flooding downstream at US 84 near Quitman.
Flooding in the Atlantic basin is still clearing out down the channels, Ocmulgee is less than a foot over the channel at Macon. Oconee River is still flooding near Oconee, just an inch over at this report. Ogeechee River is down a foot, still a foot and a half above the channel at Midville impacting north Emanuel and south Burke Counties. Brier Creek is still running a foot out of the channel in central Burke County. Ohoopee River is still flooding at GA297 near Swainsboro, the depth has doubled overnight near Reidsville, more than six and a half feet over the channel. Ocmulgee, Oconee and Ohoopee get together in the Altamaha River channel, now flooding US 221 near Charlotteville, up a foot overnight to three feet over, downstream near Baxley, up a foot and a half overnight, running three and a half feet over. Satilla River is now flooding at GA158 near Waycross, Alabaha River continues to flood at GA 203 near Blackshear.
Watch the black tags on the map to the right for updates on flow levels, blue tags indicate action stage for flooding. More to follow.
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