9/14/2024
WT Staff
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September 14, 2024 1051 am EDT
Record low flows, severe drought continues
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges in Ohio
Clear and sunny for the last weekend of Lake Erie summer, the forecast out of NWS local office in Cleveland. Dry conditions persist through the northwest, moderate drought in Blanchard and Auglaize River watersheds keeps Lower Maumee River in severe hydrologic drought. Clear conditions also apply in the south, an area of severe drought hanging on to the Hocking River watershed through Hocking and Athens Counties another day. Six sites record extreme low flows, 1st percentile values the lowest recorded on this date. No extreme high flows or floods are recorded in the network.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS), Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) and State sources where available
Lake Erie west basin
A new upload from NCCOS captured Sep 13 at wind speed 9.9 mph is a clear view of the HAB, we must presume the mass is not entirely visible due to high wind conditions. The area covered by the bloom mass appears reduced in size from the prior image. The concentrations appear as reported here for the prior image Sep 12 when the wind was a bit lower, 6.6 mph. Maumee Bay is once again the high concentration leader showing at 1 to 2 million cells per ml, including in surface proximity to the City of Toledo water intake. Note the intake pipe is many meters below the surface, designed to avoid taking in algal material. Maumee Bay State Park shows a hot spot up to 2 million cells per ml along the beach in the west, the rest of the bloom area a consistent 1 million cells per ml. See the NCCOS image here.
Find the US EPA national beach advisories dashboard, here.
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