10/17/2024
WT Staff
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October 17, 2024 updated 243 pm EDT
Lisbon BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Columbiana County: Village of Lisbon is under a BWA following a water main break yesterday. The boil water advisory impacts customers north of West Pine St on the west side of Market and properties north of Jerome St on the east side until further notice. Village of Lisbon provides potable water to a population of 2521 persons from a groundwater well source in the Little Beaver Creek watershed, this is a minor tributary of Upper Ohio River and part of the Mississippi River drainage basin.
Hancock County: City of Findlay issued a BWA Tuesday this week for customers connecting on 2700 block of France Street and 201 East Bigelow Avenue. According to Findlay Water Department staff, this advisory has been lifted, customers may go back to drinking from the tap. Findlay Water serves over 54 thousand residents from a surface water source in the Blanchard River, and reservoirs filled from the Blanchard River. According to the EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online, City of Findlay has a running Consumer Confidence violation, a matter of unaddressed non-compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act since January 2019. There are no serious violations noted for this facility.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Cleveland, OH 346 am Thur Oct 17
Freeze Warning has passed as of 9 am EDT this morning. Frost and/or freezing temperatures are possible tonight.
Frost and/or freezing temperatures are possible Friday morning.
Take measures to protect sensitive plants, be ready with shelter for pets and people as necessary.
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Southern Erie Counties
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitors in Ohio
Severe drought is spreading through the Ohio River minor tributaries and Muskingum River basin, now claiming the Walhonding River and Wheeling Creek watersheds, hopped up overnight from moderate to severe drought. The northeast Lake Erie basin higher flows noted yesterday have caused the Grand River watershed to depart the drought map overnight, leaving that east side of Lake Erie basin unrated. Severe drought continues in the west half of the Lake Erie drainage area, the Auglaize River watershed at severe drought, adjacent Lower Maumee River at moderate drought. Upper Maumee River was incorrectly tagged with severe drought yesterday, this watershed and the adjacent St Josephs River are rated below normal, as is St Mary's River watershed, laying to the south of Auglaize. St Mary's watershed includes Grand Lake, the permanent advisories for toxic algae applying there, this watershed drains toward the west, into Indiana. See the watershed layer with directional arrows on the map to the right. Tiffin River watershed is off the drought map today, no longer rated below normal.
South of the drainage divide, Paint Creek watershed in the Scioto River basin of central Ohio remains below normal. In the Muskingum River basin, Muskingum River watershed continues in severe drought, joined by Walhonding to the north. Adjacent to the south, Hocking River watershed continues in moderate drought. Mohican River, Tuscarawas and Little Muskingum River watersheds remain below normal. Of the Ohio River minor tributaries, Little Beaver Creek is on the board today, rated below normal. Wheeling Creek has stepped up to severe drought, Shade River watershed remains at moderate, Raccon-Symmes 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 16 at surface wind speed 21.5 mph, a clear view of the west basin Lake Erie. As expected, the visible HABs are much smaller than what we see at lower wind speed. North Maumee Bay HAB is still visible in open water, 100 thousand cells per ml or less. No HAB activity is evident in Maumee Bay State Park today, the low concentration bloom seen in the previous image was 100 thousand cells per ml or less. Sandusky Bay HAB remains locked in lakewide 600 to 700 thousand cells per ml. East of Catawba Island, a large open water HAB extends to within one nm of South Bass Island. The water from Cedar Point to Vermilion-on-the-Lake is mostly cloud obscured, a small break in the cloud cover shows the widespread HAB in open water 100 thousand cells per ml or less.
See the latest NCCOS image, here.
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