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Human sewage spill impacts water in Lawrence County
Toledo BWA
Water news for Wednesday, January 3, 2023 - last updated 12 pm EST
Drinking Water matters
City of Toledo has issued a BWA effectively immediately for customers connecting between Ketner Avenue and Oldham Drive. The BWA is expected to remain in effect until Saturday, January 6 at 5 pm.
Hazardous Spills Hotline records as reported to OEPA 1-800-282-9378
A spill of unknown amount of human sewage was reported December 28 impacting a water body off County Route 12 in Rome Township, Lawrence County. The water body is not named in this report, Lawrence County has two watershed areas as reported here, both run to the Ohio River.
See the pink tags on the map for more hazardous material spills reported in Ohio.
Streamflow Situation from USGS Waterwatch based on real-time flow monitors across Ohio
Normal flows in central and west Ohio interrupted by an increasing number of below normal and one much below normal rating showing today.
West Ohio flows remain below normal on both sides of the state divide with increasing numbers of much below normal readings through the Great Miami basin.
Auglaize River flow north of Fort Jennings in the Lake Erie basin remains at the extreme low rating midweek, as does the Loramie Creek flow measured at Newport in the Upper Great Miami River basin.
There are no USGS gauges reporting extreme high flow values midweek.
Drought situation from USGS Waterwatch 7-day average streamflow compared with historic flow for today's date
Auglaize River watershed remains rated at moderate hydrologic drought, bordered to the south by the St Mary's River watershed rated below normal. South of St Mary's, the height of land divide separating Lake Erie drainage from the Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico basin, the Great Miami River watershed is rated below normal. Scioto River drainage area is likely going to be seen on the drought map from the Paint River watershed where current streamflows have dipped from below normal to much below normal midweek. Scioto River tributary Tygarts watershed remains rated below normal Wednesday, the rest of Ohio is clear of the drought map for now.
The height-of-land divide in Ohio runs from Mercer County in the west angling northeast up to Ashtabula County on the east state border. Streamflows north of the divide feed Lake Erie, flows south of the divide run to the Ohio River, part of the Mississippi River basin that drains the majority of interior North America to the Gulf of Mexico.
As streamflow conditions shift and change in the Ohio River basin, track the effects south down the Mississippi River into to Louisiana. Louisiana is rated "Exceptional Drought" on the USA National drought map, experiencing the most prolonged and severe dry conditions in decades. To see how surface water streamflows impact downstream drinking water supplies, visit WTLA.us.
Harmful Algal Bloom update based on the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) satellite monitoring program
As of this update, no new images are available for interpretation. The most recent satellite image supplied by NCCOS is the Jan 1 picture, mostly cloud obscured and taken at undetermined surface wind speed. Here we see open water from Reno Beach on the Ohio shore across the international border up to three to five miles off the north shore where cloud cover interrupts the view again.
The HAB spotted Dec 30 near Monroe, Michigan is still visible between cloud patches in the current image. The area or extent of the bloom here is not possible to determine due to cloud cover. The edge of the HAB that is visible between cloud patches appears moderate in concentration, 100 thousand cells per 100 ml.
A HAB spotted near the outlet of Toussaint River Dec 30 appears further west in the recent image. In the Jan 1 image, the Toussaint River outlet is cloud obscured, the shoreline to the west that appeared clear of HAB on Dec 30 today shows HAB activity. Again, the extent of this HAB cannot be determined as we have a view of one edge of the HAB before cloud cover takes over. The edge of the HAB that is visible between clouds appears the same moderate concentration as the Monroe HAB, 100 thousand cells per 100 ml.
December 30 image showed the Ohio shoreline from Reno Beach to Camp Perry where we saw HAB activity around Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, this HAB is not visible in the Jan 1 image.
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