10/4/2024
WT Staff
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October 4, 2024 959 am EDT
Lafayette BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Walker County: City of Lafayette issued a BWA yesterday due to elevated turbidity levels in the water supply at the Lee School water treatment plant. Connections east of Hwy 27 bypass, south of 136 St East, Naomi community Hwy 151, Corinth area, Hillcrest community, Walnut Grove area, Old Trion Hwy. City of Lafayette distributes treated surface water water purchased from Catoosa and Walker Counties to 18,177 residential customers.
Bryan County: Various private water service companies have issued boil water advisories this week including customers in the Coastal Health District. More than 25 locations in Bryan County are affected until further notice.
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.
Streamflow Situation
from the network of monitoring stations of the USGS Georgia Water Science Center
Partly cloudy today with no hazardous weather in the outlook from NWS Peachtree City heading in to the weekend. Streamflows continue above seasonal normal to high Friday, with fifteen stations recording flood flows in central and south Georgia. As of this report, Georgia holds 50% of the national USGS network flood events, 31 gauges in flood stage in the continental USA.
Flooding continues on both sides of the state height-of-land divide, separating the water for the Gulf of Mexico via Alabama and Florida from the water moving out to the Atlantic Ocean directly. Three locations on the Gulf side of the divide are still overflowing their channels, all three in Suwannee River watershed in the Withlacoochee River. Withlacoochee River began to rise about seven hours before Hurricane Helene made landfall, the sharp escalation to flash flood started the hour Big Bend was struck harder than any storm prior. Up in Georgia, Withlacoochee River measured four and a half feet deep at Skipper Bridge Road near Bemiss, GA the afternoon of Sept 26. As the rain began to fall, flow began rising late afternoon. At the hour Helene struck land, Withlacoochee raced upward, tripling its flow depth over the next 24 hours. From action stage to flood stage, 20 hours time passed according to the provisional data recorded by USGS. Once minor flood stage was breached, it did not stop there. Peak flow occurred Sep 30 around 3 am, six feet out of the channel and just short of moderate flood stage. Today, Withlacoochee is still overflowing at Skipper Bridge Rd in Lowndes County, just by a couple of inches. Downstream in the channel at US 84 near Quitman, flood flow is still more than four and a half feet over, and now flooding further downstream near Pinetta in Florida, a foot and a half over. As of 845 pm last night, Alapaha River is no longer flooding near Alapaha. Ochlockonee River quit flooding near Concord, FL a couple of hours later last evening, as expected.
Flint River is running a 99th percentile extreme high level at GAa 32 near Oakfield, this location is still five feet below flood stage and the water level is not rising.
In the Atlantic drainage basin, Savannah River continues to overrun the channel at Burtons Ferry Bridge, still 2 feet over near Millhaven, around 3 am this morning began spilling out of the channel downstream near Cylo, currently an inch over and rising. Ogeechee River is still flooding at Midville, running a foot and four inches over, the flooding downstream at Rocky Ford Rd ended yesterday afternoon as expected. Ocmulgee River continues to flood US 341 near Hawkinsville by a margin of two and a half feet, downstream at Abbeville the flow is three feet above flood stage. Ohoopee River is down a foot and a half overnight, still running six and a half feet out of the channel near Reidsville. Altamaha River continues to flood US 221 near Charlotteville, down half a foot overnight, still two feet over flood stage at this report. Flooding continues downstream near Baxley, Altamaha River maintaining the same three and a half feet over flood stage as reported this time yesterday. Further downstream, flood stage was breached at Doctortown 1 am this morning, not quite an inch over as of this writing. Satilla River continues to run a foot over flood stage at GA158 near Waycross, with tributaries Alabaha River and Little Satilla each a foot out of the channel at GA 203 near Blackshear and near Offerman, respectively.
Remain alert for flooded roads. 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.
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