10/16/2024
WT Staff
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October 16, 2024 updated 1033 am EDT
EPA National Pollution Prevention Training and Conference Dec 2024, Washington
Register Now for the 2024 National Pollution Prevention Training and Conference.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be holding its 2024 National Pollution Prevention Training and Conference in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 10-11. The event will convene representatives from EPA grantees, academia, industry, non-governmental organizations, and state and federal agencies. Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of pollution prevention (P2), while leveraging and strengthening their connections to other practitioners. P2, which is also known as source reduction, is any practice that reduces, eliminates or prevents pollution at its source prior to recycling, treatment or disposal. Many of the practices and goals of P2 overlap significantly with those of sustainability and zero waste.
Sessions will include panel discussions and presentations by P2 experts that examine best practices and examples of how EPA’s P2 grants have delivered technical assistance to help businesses develop and adopt P2 practices. Participants will learn more about topics such as reducing pollution and finding alternatives, including for some chemicals EPA has regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act. For example, participants will learn about efforts to find alternatives to methylene chloride and how businesses are preventing pollution by transitioning away from the use of perchloroethylene and trichloroethylene. In addition, sessions will discuss identifying sustainable food services and using products with safe ingredients in salons.
The event will be held at the Yotel in Washington, D.C., with virtual attendance options available. Events are free to attend but registration is required. If you are planning to attend the event in person, the deadline to register is Nov. 1. The deadline for virtual attendance is Dec. 2.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Cleveland, OH 956 am Wed Oct 16
FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north central Ohio and northwest Ohio.
Frost and/or freezing temperatures are possible tonight into Thursday
morning.
Frost and/or freezing temperatures are possible Thursday night and
Friday morning.
Take measures to protect sensitive plants, be ready with shelter for pets and people as necessary.
Impacting Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-
Ashtabula Inland-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-
Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-
Holmes-Knox-Southern ErieLewis-Hardin-
Mercer-Auglaize-Darke-Shelby-Logan-Delaware-Miami-Champaign-Clark-
Madison-Licking-Preble-Montgomery-Greene-Pickaway-Fairfield-Butler-
Warren-Clinton-Ross-Hocking-Clermont-Brown-Highland-Adams-Pike-
Scioto Counties.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
A cluster of streamflow gauges run much above seasonal normal, 93 to 95th percentile including Rocky River, Cuyahoga River and Chagrin River midweek.
Severe drought remains in the Lake Erie basin northeast at Grand River watershed in spite of much above seasonal normal streamflows in the adjacent Rocky River, Cuyahoga River and Ashtabula-Chagrin watersheds. Severe drought hangs on the Maumee River watershed area including the Upper Maumee River and tributary Auglaize River watersheds, adjacent Lower Maumee at moderate drought. Below normal rating applies again to Tiffin, St Jospehs, St Marys River watersheds. South of the drainage divide, Paint Creek watershed in the Scioto River basin of central Ohio is rated below normal. In the Muskingum River basin, Muskingum River watershed has escalated into severe drought status, adjacent to the north and south, Walhonding and Hocking watersheds are rated moderate drought. Mohican River, Tuscarawas and Little Muskingum River watersheds remain below normal. Of the Ohio River minor tributaries, Wheeling Creek and Shade River watersheds are rated moderate drought, Raccon-Symmes is below normal. The entirety of Great Miami River basin remains unrated on the drought map another day. No extremes of high or low flow, no flooding present at this report.
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 15 at surface wind speed 12.3 mph, a mostly cloud obscured image with extensive HAB activity visible in the cloud breaks. North Maumee Bay presents with dispersed open water HAB mats at 500 thousand cells per ml, the bloom density increases in the open water up the Michigan shoreline approximately 2nm wide at 100 thousand cells per ml. Dispersed open water HABs are visible in Maumee Bay State Park water at a low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml or less. Sandusky Bay HAB peeks through the clouds in the outer bay area at 600 to 700 thousand cells per ml. East of Sandusky Bay a large area of open water HAB fills the water from Cedar Point to Vermilion-on-the-Lake, extending approximately 7 nm from the Ohio shore.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
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