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10/21/2024
WT Staff
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October 21, 2024 updated 1150 am CDT
City of Tallulah issues system-wide BWA over the weekend
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Madison Parish: City of Tallulah came under a BWA Saturday when a malfunction at the water plant caused a loss of pressure through the system. As of the last update, City staff were working to locate and resolve the issue, the advisory will remain syste-wide until further notice. Tallulah Water System delivers potable water to a population of 8601 from a groundwater source. The facility is an EPA enforcement priority with non-compliance issues in 12 of the last 12 quarters and significant Safe Drinking Water Act violations in 5 of the last 12 quarters. The last complete sanitary survey Nov 2023 noted significant deficiencies in management-operation, finished water storage, pumps, source and treatment. A state investigation was carried out May 2024 as a result of a complaint or violation. More to follow.
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 was captured yesterday, Oct 20, a clear image at high wind speed 12.2 mph. Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas appear clear of HAB while Lac des Allemands and Bayou Fortier fill up to lakewide HAB status, the concentration matches the color scale for 600 thousand cells per ml, by no means the highest seen this season. Lakes Verret and Palourde are cloud obscured in this image, we last saw these lakes stuffed with bluegreen at high concentration 700 thousand cells per ml. See the latest satellite image of southeast LA water bodies, here.
National Hurricane Center Bulletin 9A Tropical Storm Oscar 9A issued 800 am Mon Oct 21
HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING OVER EASTERN CUBA
At 800 AM EDT (1200 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Oscar was located about 5 miles W OF Guantanamo Cuba at maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, moving toward the west near 2 mph. According to Forecaster Pasche, a turn to the northwest and north is expected later today, followed by a faster northeastward motion on Tuesday and Wednesday. On the forecast track, the center of Oscar is expected to continue moving across
eastern Cuba through this afternoon, then emerge off the northern coast of Cuba late today or tonight and move near the southeastern
and central Bahamas on Tuesday.
Watch for possible coastal impacts in the surf zone in Gulf Coast and southeast USA. More to follow.
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