9/23/2024
WT Staff
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September 23, 2024 1012 am EDT
Schagticoke BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Rensselaer County: Town of Schaghticoke issued a Boil Water Advisory for customers connecting on Haughney Road in the Pleasantdale neighborhood Friday. The advisory stems from a water main break in the area, effective until sometime on Monday, September 23. More to follow.
Streamflow Situation from the USGS network of streamflow gauges in New York
Following a weekend of intermittent coastal and estuary flooding, the NY Water Science Center provisional streamflow data shows normal to above seasonal normal water levels in southern and northern watersheds Monday morning, while the west interior and central drainage basins run below normal to much below seasonal normal. Check the map to the right for brown tags blue tags indicating 1st percentile low flows. One extreme low flow is reported on Rondout Creek, a tributary of the Lower Hudson River, running at a record low level for this date in the 87 year history of recording water data in this location.
The drought map continues to expand territory below normal Monday, an area of the west interior Finger Lakes region now rated below normal, joining the Black River and Upper Hudson River watersheds also below normal. Lake Ontario minor tributaries west section in Niagara, Orleans and west Monroe Counties remains in moderate drought as reported here last week. Niagara River - Lake Erie watershed joins adjacent Allegheny River watershed, rated below normal.
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
New York
A new daily high record number of HAB reports Monday, 463 reports on the notifications board after the first weekend of fall. This is up from 425 confirmed HABs on Saturday. A raft of additional bluegreen growth is reported in the Finger Lakes, currently rated below normal water levels for this time of the year. First HAB activity of the year was confirmed in Mecox Bay. Seneca Lake has gone from 96 to 110 active blooms over the weekend, these impacting the deepest and second longest of the Finger Lakes, this body of water is estimated to contain half of the water volume in the Finger Lakes. The latest impacted water body list is available here.
The latest satellite image of Lake Champlain was captured September 22, another partially clear image taken at unknown surface wind speed. Baie Missisquoi is populated with a loosely dispersed open water HAB mass of low concentration, 100 thousand cells per ml or less. The open water HABs are observed in the channel west of North Hero Island, also at the low concentration. The rest of the lake is cloud obscured in this image. A prior image taken on September 20 showed HABs extending past Alburg-Swanton bridge beyond North Hero Island to the channel between Grand Isle and St Albans Bay at moderate concentration around 300 thousand cells per ml.
See the NCCOS color image of Lake Champlain here.
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