12/20/2024
WT Staff
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December 20, 2024 1047 am EST
50 years of Safe Drinking Water Act
Safe Drinking Water Act
Fifty years ago this week, national legislation was passed to ensure a consistent quality of drinking water for the American people. The US Environmental Protection Agency has responsibility to manage and enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act, ensuring public safety and inspiring public confidence in the nation's municipal drinking water.
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency supports 4212 licensed drinking water facilities in Ohio, working to ensure that the standards are maintained from source water testing through treatment and distribution right to the tap. With challenges posed by cyanobacteria, intermittent source water contamination, flooding and drought, the drinking water operators manage to daily meet or exceed SDWA standards. All federal, state and local drinking water facility personnel are to be commended for their service.
See how drinking water facility compliance compares in Ohio, New York, Georgia, Louisiana and California, here.
Guernsey County: Guernsey County Water Department staff confirm the BWA for Village of Senecaville has now been rescinded. Some Senecaville customers have been boiling their drinking water since Tuesday this week. Guernsey County Water supplies 8891 customers with surface water purchased from the City of Cambridge, the source water drawn from Wills Creek. Note the moderate drought conditions currently in the Wills Creek watershed based on 7 day average streamflows below seasonal normal levels.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Cleveland 534 am Fri Dec 20
Wind chills will dip below 10 degrees in some areas on Saturday night.
Impacting Lucas-Wood-Hancock-Wyandot-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox Counties
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Wilmington 403 am Fri Dec 20
Snow, perhaps mixed with a little rain initially, is expected to spread across the area between 6 AM and noon. Locally moderate snow will be possible. The snow will affect travel this morning, which includes the Cincinnati and Dayton metro areas. With temperatures slightly above freezing, much of the snow will accumulate on grassy and elevated surfaces. However, higher rates of snow will reduce visibilities and may cause road surfaces to become slick, especially across bridges and overpasses. Snow accumulations will vary from a half inch to up to 2 inches.
The snow will taper off to areas of rain and snow this afternoon as temperatures warm slightly. Some slicks spots may redevelop tonight as temperatures drop below freezing.
Impacting Mercer-Darke-Preble-Montgomery-Greene-Butler-Warren-Clinton-
Hamilton-Clermont-Brown-Highland Counties
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS river monitoring sites in Ohio
Fog, mist and 34 degrees at Marion Municipal Airport, the forecast from NWS Cleveland Friday is for clouds, snow and high 35. Sixty percent chance of rain and snow showers throughout the day, possibly dropping half an inch of snow. A 40% chance of snow showers overnight tonight, low getting down to 23 with a north wind around 11 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph creating some wind chill for exposed creatures, and another half inch accumulation of snow is possible. Light snow falling in the south, 35 degrees with snow and rain showers expected all day.
Normal streamflows dominate the drainage basins both sides of the divide Friday with a couple of low readings coming from the northwest Lake Erie basin and the Ohio River minor tributary in severe drought, Wheeling Creek. Three of Ohio's 32 watersheds persist on the drought map, severe drought holds on Wheeling Creek watershed, impacting Belmont, southeast Harrison and south Jefferson Counties. Adjacent Wills Creek watershed in the Muskingum River basin remains at moderate drought, impacting Guernsey County. St Josephs River watershed remains below normal in the Lake Erie basin. As of this report, there are no extreme high or low flows, no flooding in the reference network.
NWS has winter weather safety information for at home and on the road. See the full message, here.
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