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1/23/2025
WT Staff
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January 23, 2025 947 am EST
Wind chill and hazardous driving conditions impact drinking water infrastructure
Slippery road conditions and extreme cold temperatures create all kinds of hazards, not the least of which is potential impact on drinking water infrastructure. Traffic accidents increase with icy road conditions, dangerous not only for the occupants of the vehicles involved, also dangerous for pedestrians, light poles and fire hydrants! WTGA.us reports water disruptions due to water main breaks, hydrant damage, pump failure, power outage, construction accidents and many other situations. Boil water advisories are issued when pressure in the water lines drops for any number of reasons. Check the front page map for yellow tags indicating boil water advisories.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 441 am Thursday Jan 23 by NWS Peachtree City
Bitterly cold conditions are expected once again this morning with wind chills of 10 to 15 degrees expected. Patches of snow and ice on area roadways will continue to make driving hazardous is some areas, particularly in central Georgia
and along less-traveled secondary roadways on Thursday.
A Cold Weather Advisory has now passed for portions of central Georgia, generally
along and south of LaGrange, to Barnesville, to Warrenton until 8 AM EST.
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
Special Weather Statement issued 210 am Thur Jan 23 by NWS Charleston SC
COLD WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS
MORNING...
Very cold wind chills of 13 to 20 degrees above zero tonight into Thursday morning in portions of southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. Frostbite and hypothermia will occur if unprotected skin is exposed to these temperatures. Wind chill values can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.
This continues to be an unusually long period of bitterly cold weather. Be sure to take protective actions to prepare both your home and business as well as yourself for this period of very cold weather. Use caution while traveling outside. Wear appropriate clothing, a hat, and gloves. Make frequent checks on older family, friends, and neighbors. Ensure
portable heaters are used correctly. Do not use generators or grills inside.
Impacting Jenkins-Screven-Candler-Bulloch-Effingham-Tattnall-Evans-Inland
Bryan-Coastal Bryan-Inland Chatham-Coastal Chatham-Long-Inland
Liberty-Coastal Liberty-Inland McIntosh-Coastal McIntosh Counties in Georgia
Allendale-Hampton-Inland Colleton-Dorchester-Inland Berkeley-
Inland Jasper-Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Charleston-Coastal Jasper-
Tidal Berkeley Counties in SC
Including the cities of Sylvania, Metter, Pembroke, Hilton Head
Island, Tybee Island, Goose Creek, Ridgeland, Garden City, Edisto
Beach, Reidsville, Fort Stewart, Summerville, Yemassee,
Hinesville, Fort Mcallister, Savannah, Saint George, Jasper,
Claxton, Townsend, Ludowici, Levy, Millen, Moncks Corner,
Wilmington Island, Charleston, Darien, Walterboro, Allendale,
Mount Pleasant, Hampton, Oak Level, Chelsea, Pooler, Richmond
Hill, North Charleston, Beaufort, Springfield, Statesboro,
Rincon, and Daniel Island
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Glynn County: City of Brunswick issued a BWA following repairs made Saturday. The BWA is precautionary and applies to water customers connecting on Marshview Circle, until the lab tests confirm the water is free of contamination. City of Brunswick water system serves a population over forty thousand customers from a groundwater source in the Satilla River watershed.
Walker County: LaFayette residences and businesses served by the Lee School Rd water treatment plant remain under BWA for turbidity, a high degree of suspended particles that make the water cloudy. Customers connected to Lee School Rd water plant, one of two treatment plants operated by Lafayette Water, include those connecting east of Highway 27 bypass, South of 136 East, including the Naomi community, Highway 151, Corinth area, Hillcrest community, Walnut grove area and customers along the 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.
EPA has released new quarterly report on drinking water facilities compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. Of the 2376 licensed and active drinking water facilities serving in Georgia, twenty-eight have significant violations in the latest quarter. See the prior quarterly report, how Georgia's drinking water facilities stack up against those in Ohio, New York, Louisiana and California, here.
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