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10/11/2024
WT Staff
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October 11, 2024 1026 am CDT
Port Sulphur Water Plant water shut off prompts a BWA in Plaquemines Parish
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Plaquemines Parish: A BWA has been issued following a water service disruption yesterday. The water was shut off from the Port Sulphur Water Plant to Empire Bridge. More to follow.
Morehouse Parish: Region 3 watershed Old Bonita Road came under a BWA Wednesday as a result of unspecified issues with the Jones McGinty System water supply.
St. Martin Parish: Catahoula census-designated place in St Martin Parish came under BWA this week. Customers of St. Martin Water Works District No. 4 in Catahoula were without water during which time repair work was performed. More to follow.
Richland Parish customers on Wade Road and Jaggers Lane had to boil water earlier this week after a water main blew out on Tuesday.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS streamflow gauges in Louisiana
Below seasonal normal is the predominant rating on the USGS dashboard heading into the weekend. The west side of Louisiana runs mostly normal water levels, that's watershed Regions 1 and 4. All other watersheds are trending below normal with much below normal and a low rating showing up in Region 3 watershed. The Region 3 drought situation remains as reported here earlier in the week, the east border with Mississippi remains in severe drought with the Bayou Macon - Tensas River channel along the west edge of East Carroll, Madison and Tensas Parishes remaining in extreme drought. The remaining surface area of Region 3 in the northeast is rated below normal. Region 5 Evangeline and Acadia Parishes remain below normal, and most of Region 7 watershed is also rated below normal.
No flooding or high flows, no extreme low flows to the 1st percentile are recorded as of this report.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite monitoring program of National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
The latest image of Lake Pontchartrain and the southeast water bodies is dated Oct 10, a clear image captured at wind speed of 8.9 mph. Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas remain HAB free with new HAB activity reappearing in Lac des Allemands and Bayou Fortier after a period with no visible bluegreen activity. Lakes Cataouache and Salvador have low to no HAB activity according to this image. Lakes Verret and Palourde HABs have come back on as lakewide in extent, the concentration edging up to 800 thousand cells per ml. Black Bay widespread HAB is back up in concentration as well, 800 thousand cells per ml. See the latest satellite image of southeast LA water bodies, here.
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