10/4/2024
WT Staff
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October 4, 2024 1149 am EDT
Drought relief for Wills Creek watershed, Guernsey County
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges in Ohio
Sunny and clear through Ohio Friday with no hazardous weather outlook from the NWS at Cleveland or Wilmington. Streamflows run mostly normal with an increasing proportion of stations dipping below normal through all the watersheds statewide. Just four stations are below 10th percentile, and one of those is a record low, 1st percentile found in a tributary of the Muskingum River. How these streamflows relay to drought ratings, the seven-day average streamflows for each station are compared with what is normal for the site over the period of monitoring. A seven-day average streamflow below normal translates to the drought map, depending how far below normal, ratings applied to a watershed or part of a watershed area appear on the drought map from below normal to moderate drought, severe drought and extreme drought.
The drought map has shifted overnight, Wills Creek watershed in the central interior Muskingum River basin is back down from moderate drought to a below normal rating. Wheeling Creek watershed, a minor tributary of the Ohio River adjacent Wills Creek continues to run below normal. In Lake Erie drainage basin, Tiffin River watershed continues in moderate drought, across to the northeast side, Grand River watershed is below normal.
As of this report, there are no active floods, no extreme high flows reported. An extreme low, 1st percentile is showing up in the Muskingum River basin in Mill Creek, running a record low water level another day.
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
The latest upload from NCCOS is another clear image, captured October 3 at surface wind speed 10.3 mph shows Maumee Bay HAB has compressed event further over the last twenty-four hours. The widespread HAB is now appearing as a 2 to 3 nm band running from Toledo up the Michigan shoreline as far as Monroe. The concentration is down in most of the mass, 100 to 200 thousand cells per ml with a hot spot 900 thousand in North Maumee Bay. A narrow band of HAB extends along the Ohio shore from Camp Perry to Port Clinton 100 to 200 thousand cells per ml, HABs again evident in Portage River at a concentration of 400 to 500 thousand cells per ml, pushing less than a mile upstream of the outlet. Maumee Bay State Park area remains mostly clear with a localized HAB on the west shore of Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge, low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml.
Sandusky Bay HAB remains widespread at high concentration 900 thousand cells per ml from Pickerel Point to OH-269, becoming thin dispersed mats in the water from OH-269 to Cedar Point, retaining that same concentration. Muddy Creek Bay appears HAB free in this image. See the latest NCCOS image, here.
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Logan County: Bellefontaine City Public Water System issued a BWA Sunday following a water main break. The boil order applies to customers at 4067 County Road 130, County Road 32 North (between State Route 47 and County Road 130), and 2739 County Road 91. Bellefontaine City serves 13249 customers from a groundwater source in the Upper Great Miami River watershed.
Ross County: City of Chillicothe issued a 48-hour Boil Water advisory following a water main break in the Edgewood area affecting several neighborhoods in Ross County Sunday. City of Chillicothe supplies potable water to 21,725 residents, the raw water sourced from groundwater wells in the Lower Scioto River watershed.
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