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1/14/2025
WT Staff
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January 14, 2025 1147 am EST
Lafayette BWA extended for high turbidity
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Walker County: LaFayette has issued another BWA for high particulate matter coming out of the Lee School Road water treatment plant. Turbidity was at the root of another BWA recently. The water customers advised to vigorously boil their drinking and hygiene water for at least one minute, to sanitize any microbiological contamination carried along on the particulates includes those 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. Lafayette provides drinking water to 18177 residential customers from a surface water source, purchased from another licensed drinking water facility in the Coosa River watershed. The Lee School Road water treatment plant is one of two water treatment plants serving Lafayette area.
Chatham County: Savannah has issued a BWA after line repairs made near DeRenne Ave and Reynolds St on Sunday. This precautionary BWA applies to several customers south of DeRenne Avenue between Habersham and Paulsen Streets until further notice. Savannah Main water district serves 169 thousand customers from a groundwater source.
EPA is due to release the new round of compliance stats this week, check back here for the updated Serious Violator list. See the prior quarterly report, how Georgia's drinking water facilities SDWA compliance compares to Ohio, New York, Louisiana and California, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of river monitors of the USGS throughout the watersheds of Georgia
Water levels are down in the northwest Tuesday, back normal to below normal from the much above seasonal normal levels we saw yesterday. Tobesofkee Creek flow is rated much below normal downstream of the Tobesofkee Dam, and uncontrolled spillway that raises the water level in the creek near Macon approximately once a day. The water level fluctuates from below 2 ft to above 5 ft every day, depending on the time of day the station is accessed, the water level may show high or low, it takes 4 to 5 hours to rise and fall, the remainder of the day, approximately 18 to 19 hours of each day shows a reading low to much below normal. Lower Flint River watershed has returned to the Georgia drought map at below normal, this area starts in Randolph and Terrell Counties to the Seminole County. No flooding or high flows or first percentile low flows are recorded at this time.
It is 42 degrees at Warner Robins Air Force Base, a sunny day breaking out with an expected high 56. Fair and sunny, 48 degrees at Hunter US Army Airfield near Savannah, the high today 56.
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