8/31/2024
WT Staff
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August 31, 2024 updated 222 pm EDT
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Jeffersonville has been under Boil Water Advisory due to a leak under State Route 52 causing a loss of water and low or no pressure in most areas of the Village yesterday. The BWA is a precautionary measure applied to remove any microbiological contaminants that can enter the lines when water pressure drops below a minimum threshhold.
Lewisboro is under a Boil Water Advisory issued Thursday August 29 by Westchester County Department of Health for all residents served by Wild Oaks Water. The BWA was prompted by the failure of disinfection equipment and required until Friday at minimum.
NWS: Severe storms upstate, localized heavy rain
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 629 am Aug 31 by NWS Binghamton
Showers and thunderstorms will move west to east across the area this
afternoon and evening. A few stronger storms may become severe, with
damaging winds the primary threat. Localized heavy rainfall is also
possible.
Impacting Northern Oneida-Yates-Seneca-Southern Cayuga-Onondaga-Steuben-
Schuyler-Chemung-Tompkins-Madison-Southern Oneida-Cortland-Chenango-
Tioga-Broome-Bradford-Susquehanna Counties
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges in New York State
Saturday streamflows run predominantly normal to above normal statewide with a dozen stations coming in below normal to much below normal in the west and Lower Hudson River watershed. Moderate drought has come on at Lake Ontario minor tributaries west section, Niagara, Orleans and Monroe Counties. Putnam and Westchester County in the Lower Hudson River watershed are rated below normal on the drought map today.
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
Three hundred and fifty-one HABs are current on the notifications dashboard Saturday, another record breaking count. First HABs of the season are confirmed for Meadow Lake in Queens and Van Cleef Lake in Seneca County, as it happens, these are aged reports just added to the record and sent direct to the archives, these are no longer active blooms. Ellicott Creek and Niger Pond are back on the active HABs list. The Finger Lakes are loaded up with bluegreen algae, reports made prior to August 17 have been transferred to the archives, now 667 files on the log books. The latest impacted water body list is available here, updates are in progress as more reports are confirmed by the DEC.
Another clear visual of Lake Champlain has been supplied by the NCCOS satellite monitoring program, this latest one dated Aug 30. The image is clear with no HAB activity visible in Baie Missisquoi. Lake Carmi lakewide HAB is still 1 million cells concentration, a localized area with HAB is noted in St Albans Bay. The wind speed is not recorded on these images, if over 4 mph the wind could be causing the bloom mat to mix down into the water column. The image uploaded yesterday, taken Aug 29 showed the Baie Missisquoi HAB along the north shore in Canada at 2 to 3 million cells per ml by the concentration color scale and Maquam Bay showing the first signs of HAB for the season, low concentration below 100 thousand cells per 100 ml. Water east of Shelburne Bay, likely Shelburne Pond, continues with a lakewide HAB above 3 million cells. See the NCCOS color images, here.
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Lake Champlain watershed: Clinton County, parts of Plattsburgh under a BWA following a water main break on Tuesday. Customers connecting on 171-196 Oak Street and 68 Riley Avenue are affected by the order until further notice. From the US EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online, Greater Plattsburgh Water District serves 11,162 people from a groundwater well source. The facility was last inspected October 2023, non-compliance with the SDWA noted in 12 of the last 12 quarters, the matter concerning the monitoring and reporting of Lead and Copper, unaddressed since 2002.
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