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1/24/2025
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January 24, 2025 1036 am EST
Tracking with the drought map for potential impact on drinking water supplies
Real-time streamflow readings are collected and averaged over seven consecutive days, then compared with historic 7-day averages for the same time period in prior years. When the 7-day average falls below the seasonal normal for a given monitoring site, the drought map shows the impacted watershed that is becoming depleted in measured water levels. The consistent tracking and reporting of the drought map makes sense for those concerned with drinking water supply and quality. Ratings begin at "below normal", and as time goes on and water monitors continue below normal, the drought rating escalates to moderate hydrologic drought, then on to severe and the most serious drought classification, extreme drought. Note the national drought tracking system has one additional category beyond extreme drought, an indicator for wildfire risk. For our purposes here, we track the drought map in order to identify those watersheds where municipal drinking water supplies may be subject to more than the usual challenges.
Extended periods of drought in a given watershed often precede water conservation measures. In some cases, consistent attention to the drought trends point to those areas where municipal drinking water systems fail due to low water levels, as seen in Whitehall, NY late last year. The same tracking rationale applies to flood conditions and hazardous spills. By observing extreme low flows, floods and spills by watershed, it is possible to identify where there may be increased stress on groundwater wells and surface water supplies. Keep coming back to the front page map, enable the watershed layer with directional arrows to visualize the water impact zone for drought, flood and spills.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 402 am Friday Jan 24 by NWS Peachtree City
Some icy roads remain possible this morning with temperatures well
below freezing. The greatest threat will be across Central
Georgia. Some slick spots may be possible again tonight as any wet
roads refreeze.
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-
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Wilkinson Counties
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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