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12/8/2024
WT Staff
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December 8, 2024 235 pm EST
Ludowici water line replacement, BWA until Dec 13
Safe Drinking Water Act
Long County: Ludowici Water System has announced a BWA to remain in effect until Dec 13 while water lines are being replaced. Ludowici Water System serves a population of 1651 from a groundwater source in the Altamaha River watershed. See the yellow tag on the map to the right for the location of the Ludowici water treatment facility, enable the watershed layer with directional arrows to understand the impact zone for source water contamination events such as hazardous materials spills and floods, marked on the map as they occur from time to time.
Coastal Health announced the project to replace the water lines in the City of Ludowici. "The contractor will need to turn off the water for a few hours every day for several days. This may cause the water pressure in the system to drop. Microbial contamination may occur in water lines with low pressure, creating a potential health hazard." The remedy for loss of pressure is to boil the water, this will sanitize from microbiological contamination.
Note that BWAs are issued for microbiological contamination only. Boiling is not the solution for other types of water contamination including inorganic (chemical) contaminants, by-products of disinfection, cyanotoxins or heavy metals. These matters must be addressed at the treatment plant or in the home with filtration or other processes.
Instructions from Georgia Coastal Health, to properly boil tap water for use, customers should:
- Heat water until bubbles come quickly from the bottom of the container
- Continue heating the water for one minute once it begins to boil
- Remove the water from the heat source and allow it to cool before use.
During a Boil Water Advisory, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that boiled tap water or bottled water be used for the following:
- Drinking
- Washing dishes
- Brushing your teeth
- Washing or preparing food
- Washing your hands
- Making ice
- Making baby formula
The complete CDC guidance can be found here.
To protect the public from ingesting water that could make them sick, all customers should boil any tap water that will be consumed, or use bottled water until the advisory is lifted.
See how drinking water facilities in Georgia compare with those of New York, Ohio, Louisiana and California, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitoring sites in Georgia
Sunny and 63 in the north and central state Sunday, overcast 68 degrees at the coast. Streamflows are in the lower end of the charts, the average of historic water levels for this date are higher than currently observed in the rivers and streams of north and central Georgia. The south is running seasonal normal water levels. As of this report, no active floods in the network, no extreme high flows and no extreme lows.
The drought map is filled in with below normal ratings for the north and central watersheds on both sides of the state height-of-land-divide, the only areas of north and central Georgia not rated below normal include the Upper Savannah River watershed and part of the Coosa River watershed in the northwest.
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