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October 3, 2024 updated 246 pm EDT
City of Amsterdam water main back in service, BWA lifted
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Montgomery County: The City of Amsterdam had a water main break and service shutdown Monday that prompted a precautionary BWA for the entire south side of the city. According to City of Amsterdam, "all bacteria testing has been completed and results are satisfactory". The order was rescinded yesterday, customers no longer need to boil their water. City of Amsterdam supplies 20,700 customers from a surface water source. From the Annual Water Quality report, Amsterdam receives raw water supply from three impounding reservoirs at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Saratoga County. The total capacity is 10 million gallons servicing a broader community of approximately 21,000 people. Currently, the system's water demand is approximately 5.4 million gallons per average day. Upon entering a 24-inch pipe, the water is screened, metered, and disinfected with chlorine dioxide. The raw water then travels through 15 miles of pipe to the City of Amsterdam.
Streamflow Situation from the monitoring network of USGS in New York
Allan Creek has recovered overnight, the water level rising no longer rated low according to provisional data from the sensors placed in the water body. The station at Rochester in Monroe County has had days of record low flow level this week, 1st percentile. Record lows are observed this hour in the Lower Hudson River watershed, see the brown tags on the map to the right for details. Most monitoring sites in the network are running normal to below seasonal normal. The drought map has Niagara, Orleans and west Monroe Counties still rated extreme hydrologic drought. The north portion of Niagara River-Lake Erie watershed runs below normal, along with north Washington and southeast Essex rated below normal in the Champlain River watershed. No other surface area of NYS carries a drought rating. Overcast conditions in the city this morning, sunny and clear upstate.
No hazardous weather in the forecast, no active flooding in the monitored network, no extreme high flows.
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
Two hundred and two HABs are active on the notifications board Thursday afternoon, down from 230 midweek. New to the impacted water bodies list overnight Silver Mine Lake with two active bluegreen blooms.
Yesterday we saw Hope Lake, Meacham Lake, Lake Moraine in Madison County and Mountain Lake in Sullivan County making a first appearance for HABs this season. Van Cleef Lake and Lower Saranac Lake are back on the actively impacted list, new bluegreen activity confirmed yesterday by DEC staff. A batch of new reports confirmed in the Finger Lakes. See the latest impacted water body list, available here.
The latest satellite image of Lake Champlain was captured October 2, this image is partially cloud obscured with new HAB activity showing up around the Sand Bar State Park. A prior image Sept 29 shows Baie Missisquoi with open water HABs of a low concentration, 100 thousand cells per ml. A new area of HAB activity revealed in the channel between Point Au Roche and North Hero Island, low concentration 100 thousand cells per ml or less. Lake Carmi in Vermont presented lakewide HAB of high concentration, 900 thousand cells per ml.
See the NCCOS color image of Lake Champlain here.
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