1/12/2025
WT Staff
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January 12, 2025 1123 am EST
NWS: Dangerously low wind chill coming this week
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Wilmington at 5 am Sun Jan 12
A period of bitterly cold weather on the way. The combination of
very cold temperatures and wind will result in dangerously low wind
chill values. Wind chill values ranging from 0 to 10 below zero will
be possible Tuesday and Thursday morning, while wind chill values
ranging from 10 below zero to 15 below will be possible on Wednesday
morning.
See NWS winter weather safety information for at home and on the road, here.
Impacting Mason-Lewis-Hardin-Mercer-Auglaize-Darke-Shelby-Logan-
Delaware-Miami-Champaign-Clark-Madison-Licking-Preble-Montgomery-
Greene-Pickaway-Fairfield-Butler-Warren-Clinton-Ross-Hocking-
Hamilton-Clermont-Brown-Highland-Adams-Pike-Scioto Counties
Drinking water source protection
Toxic materials pollute drinking water sources, above and below ground. Hazardous materials spills reported to state authorities are part of the set of water impacting factors depicted as they happen on the front page map. In addition to the spills covered here, watersheds are impacted by industrial discharges from federally regulated sites, as reported to the Toxic Release Inventory. Sampling is done at landfill test sites for leaching contaminants impacting groundwater. Industrial point-source discharges regulated by national and state discharge permits are known and expected sources of contamination loading the waterways of the state. Municipalities release treated wastewater with an accepted level of residual contaminants. Heavy rains flush untreated sewage into watersheds from combined sanitary and storm sewer storage. In CrimeBox, find the deliberate or negligent violations of the Clean Water Act. All of these factors, plotted in time-space within the watershed tell the story of water, our subject of interest.
Toxics shedding from consumer goods have been showing up in the wastewater for decades. Public awareness and a change in consumer behavior may be the shortest path to curbing the continued pollution of drinking water supplies.
Environmental Working Group has generated a list are reminded that labeling for harmful chemicals is not required in many instances, beginning to look for independent certification for those alternative goods and products that are free of harmful chemicals.
See Environmental Working Group's guide to safer personal care products, to learn what’s really in your personal care products.
Safe Drinking Water Act
Montgomery County: City of Oakwood issued a BWA following a water main break Tuesday. Customers on Tryon Road, Glenshire Road, Milburn Road, Somerville Drive and Laurelton Drive are impacted with this event.
The new quarterly stats are due from EPA, check back here for an update to the Serious Violator List. From the prior quarter, see how drinking water facility compliance compares in Ohio, New York, Georgia, Louisiana and California, here.
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