10/12/2024
WT Staff
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October 12, 2024 1153 am EDT
Russells Point BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Logan County: Russells Point Village Public Water System issued a BWA for customers on Burkhart Avenue and The Gathering Grounds Coffee Shop following a water main break on Thursday. These rate-payers will be boiling their water until the potability is confirmed by two consecutive clear water tests from the lab. Russells Point Village Public Water System serves 1651 customers from a groundwater source in the Upper Great Miami River watershed. The facility was last inspected Jan 2023, the EPA records non-compliance issues in 12 of the last 12 inspection cycles, including a monitoring violation under the revised total coliform rule, monitoring and reporting violation of the Stage 2 disinfectants and by-products of disinfection rule and an ongoing unaddressed consumer confidence rule violation.
See the latest EPA Serious Violator List of Ohio Drinking Water Facilities, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Streamflow levels are still below to much below normal statewide this weekend with three stations rated low, two of these are extreme, record lows for the date.
Grand River watershed has joined Tiffin River watershed in severe drought rating Saturday, the two Lake Erie watersheds located in the northeast and northwest, respectively. Adjacent watersheds around both of these severe drought areas run below normal. South of the drainage divide, Upper Ohio River minor tributary Mahoning is below normal, Wheeling Creek watershed is back to normal. Downstream, the Ohio River tributary Shade River has escalated to moderate drought overnight with adjacent Raccoon-Symmes watershed below normal. Little Muskingum River watershed is rated below normal, the bottom end of the Muskingum basin where the Muskingum River watershed is moderate drought. The better part of Muskingum River basin in east central Ohio is still rated below normal, including Tuscarawas River watershed in the upper basin and Hocking River in the lower basin. Scioto and Great Miami basins are unrated again today.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science(NCCOS)
The latest upload from NCCOS was captured Oct 11 at surface wind speed 16.5 mph, far too high wind speed for a reliable assessment of the HAB extent. The prior image Oct 10 was the first captured at a reasonable wind speed in the last week, 4.3 mph. The HAB submerged by high wind popped back into view, we will refer back to this image. Maumee Bay appeared clear of bluegreen from Maumee River outlet and approximately 4 nm north toward North Maumee Bay before an open water HAB appears at low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml. Maumee Bay State Park shows off a widespread HAB mass 2 nm off shore in the east end of the park, at the low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml or less. A dense band of HAB approximately half a nm wide spotted along shore from Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge along the Ohio shoreline to Catawba Island becoming widespread around Port Clinton and a bit higher concentration, 300 thousand cells per ml. Sandusky Bay was stuffed full of HAB at the high concentration 700 thousand cells per ml. Widespread HAB appears outside of Sandusky Bay Cedar Point past Vermilion-on-the-Lake from the shoreline extending one to two nm into open water, the concentration was low, 100 thousand cells per ml.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Wilmington, OH 316 am Sat Oct 12
Frost possible next week Wednesday, Thursday impacting east central Indiana,
southeast Indiana, northeast Kentucky, northern Kentucky, central
Ohio, south central Ohio, southwest Ohio and west central Ohio. Take measures to protect sensitive plants, be ready with shelter for pets and people as necessary.
Impacting 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.
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