12/16/2024
WT Staff
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December 16, 2024 updated 1213 pm EST
Village of Warsaw water line valve replacement underway, BWA until further notice
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Wyoming County: The Village of Warsaw issued a BWA following a water main break on Saturday. A contact in the Village office told WTNY that a valve replacement is to be installed today. Residents served by the Village of Warsaw water supply are advised to boil and conserve water until further notice. The Village of Warsaw, not to be confused with the Town of the same name in Wyoming County, serves a population of 140 residents from a surface water source in the Genesee River watershed. See the yellow tag on the map to the right for the location of the water source within the Genesee River drainage area. Village of Warsaw water supply is one of 90 drinking water facilities active in Wyoming County.
Washington County: Whitehall remains under State of Emergency due to low water supply, the boil water advisory has been rescinded as of Sunday at noon according to Town officials. A voluntary water conservation plan remains in effect as the surface water source Pine Lake is low, the Upper Lake Champlain watershed having experienced severe drought through late summer and fall. Monitored streamflow levels have recovered to seasonal normal values, 70th percentile flow on the Mettawee River near Middle Granville is the only rated flow monitor in the network. The level of Lake Champlain north of Whitehall dropped steadily from mid September to its lowest level, 93 ft Dec 4. The water level is back up to the September level 95 ft deep. This trend in Lake Champlain is generally indicative of the water level trend through the watershed.
Schenectady County: Town of Niskayuna endured two separate water main breaks with a BWA issued for connections on Fernwood Drive, Budd Terrace, Pine Ridge Road, Rosendale Rd., Agostino Ave. and Deanna Ct. Niskayuna Consolidated Water WD#11 serves 22,287 from a groundwater source in Mohawk River watershed. See the yellow tag on the map to the right for the location of this water supply within the central drainage basin. Pink tags indicate hazardous materials spills, enable the watershed layer with directional arrows to see what could be impacting drinking water sources.
Rensselaer County: Schaghticoke Water briefly shut off water service to Pleasantdale last week, a BWA went into effect for 48 hours following. Schaghticoke (V) Public Water System serves 1102 people from a groundwater well source. Schaghticoke Water District #2 serves 1975 people from a surface water source purchased from another licensed drinking water facility in Rensselaer County.
See how the New York drinking water facilities compare with those in GA, OH, LA and CA, according to the EPA Compliance History stats, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitoring sites in NYS
Light rain, 44 degrees in the city, high 52 Monday. Rain is likely, 60% chance of new precipitation in the afternoon, likely starting after 1 pm, up to a quarter of an inch possible. Rain will begin again tonight after 10pm while warmer air moves in raising the temp to 54 overnight, another quarter inch of new rainfall is possible.
Upstate at Binghamton Airport, overcast and 33 degrees, heading up to high 45, a 30% chance of rain after 5pm, less than a tenth possible. Rain will begin overnight before 5am delivering up to a quarter of an inch to the west and southern watersheds, flooding as recently as Friday. A wind advisory has been issued for northeast NY and northwest Vermont, impacting Northern Franklin-Eastern Clinton-Southern Franklin-Western Clinton-Western Essex-Grand Isle-Western Franklin-Orleans-Eastern Franklin Counties, including the cities of Fort Covington, Ellenburg, Tupper Lake, South Hero, Dannemora, Richford, Saranac Lake, Newport, Malone, Champlain, Lake Placid, St. Albans, Plattsburgh, Newcomb, Enosburg Falls, Swanton, Alburgh, and Derby.
Be prepared with bottled water on hand as gusty winds could take down tree
limbs, a few power outages may result. Two periods of gusty winds are expected. The
first is from 9 PM to 2 AM tonight mostly over northern Adirondacks into the northern Champlain Valley. The next period of
gusty winds will be between 8 AM and 2 PM on Tuesday across the eastern slopes of the Adirondacks and eastern side of the northern
Green Mountains in Vermont.
Streamflows run normal to above normal statewide Monday with a few stations in the north and south drainage basins running much above seasonal normal. One area of drought remains, Lower Hudson River Putnam and north Westchester County rated moderate drought. As of this report there are no active floods or 99th percentile flows, no extreme low flows.
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