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1/3/2025
WT Staff
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January 3, 2025 1048 am EST
BWA and conservation order for Lee School Road water plant near Lafayette
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Walker County: LaFayette issued a BWA and water conservation order yesterday for rate-payers served by the Lee School Road water treatment. High turbidity increases the risk of microbiological contamination, this can be resolved by boiling the water prior to drinking.
The BWA pertains to connections within the following distribution area:
- East of Highway 27 bypass
- South of 136 East, including the Naomi community
- Highway 151
- Corinth area
- Hillcrest community
- Walnut grove area
- Old Trion Highway
The city urges residents to boil water for one minute past a rolling boil before using it for cooking, drinking, or brushing their teeth. Infants, elderly individuals, and people with immune deficiencies should be extra cautious. City of Lafayette provides potable water service to 16 thousand residential and business customers from two water treatment plants, one of which is the Lee School Road plant, located on Lee School Road south of LaFayette. The facility is supplied from a groundwater well source in the unconfined Paleozic-Rock aquifer in the Coosa River Watershed. The aquifer has been providing around 840 thousand gallons per day.
Streamflow Situation from the network of river monitors of the USGS throughout the watersheds of Georgia
Water levels are beginning to dip lower in the northwest Friday, three stations are reporting water levels below the 25th percentile, all of these are in the Coosa River watershed. Monitoring stations along the Chattahoochee River are beginning to see some below normal flows once again, through Atlanta, all downstream of the Buford Dam. Seasonal normal flows are most common through central Georgia and the south. A single low flow is again observed in Tobesofkee Creek downstream of the dam near Macon. This station has been running a 1st percentile flow for the majority of each day this week, more than doubling in depth for a four to five hour period as the dam releases excess flow. See more about Lake Tobesofkee and the Fenley Ryther Dam near Macon, here.
As of this update, we see no active flooding in the reference network, no extreme high flows. See the brown tag on the front page for the location of the Lake Tobesofkee Dam, Tobesofkee Creek is running the extreme low flow just downstream of that location. Enable the watershed layer with directional arrows.
The drought map remains mostly empty Friday. Two areas remain with a below normal rating as reported yesterday. On the Gulf of Mexico side of the drainage divide, Flint River watershed remains below normal through the lower channel, from Early County to outlet in Lake Seminole. On the Atlantic side of the height-of-land divide, St. Mary's River watershed, part of the Satilla-Altamaha basin, remains below normal in through Charlton County.
Fair, 42 degrees at Warner Robins Air Force Base, high today 58 degrees with wind gusts to 25 mph. It is fair and 47 degrees at Hunter US Army Airfield near Savannah, the Charleston SC local forecast office calling for a breezy, sunny day with a high near 60. The west wind will be 6 to 11 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon, the gusts could be as high as 29 mph.
Safe Drinking Water Act
See how Georgia's drinking water facilities SDWA compliance compares to Ohio, New York, Louisiana and California, here.
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