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12/17/2024
WT Staff
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December 17, 2024 1211 pm CST
BWA for New Orleans Lower 9th Ward
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
New Orleans: A precautionary BWA in effect for the following areas:
- Florida Avenue from Inner Harbor Navigation Canal to the Parish line
- Parish line from Florida Avenue to the Mississippi River
- The Mississippi River from the Parish line to the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal
- Inner Harbor Navigation Canal from the Mississippi River to Florida Avenue
On Tuesday, Dec. 17, officials with the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board reported the BWA is necessary as water pressure to the affected area dropped below the minimum safe threshhold 20 pounds per square inch. Water pressure has been restored, the impacted areas are to boil water for at least one minute until the lab testing confirms safety.
Bossier Parish: A BWA was issued Dec 12 for customers of the River Point System after a routine test turned up E. coli bacteria. River Point Water System serves 45 people from a groundwater source in the Carrizo Aquifer.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitoring sites in Louisiana
Widespread, dense fog has given way to a fog-mist in New Orleans this morning, 61 degrees heading for a mostly sunny day with a high 73. Shreveport local forecast office reports chance of thunderstorms today, later on tonight a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms between midnight and 3am, then a chance of showers after 3am. For tomorrow, showers and possibly a thunderstorm before noon, then a slight chance of showers.
Normal streamflows continue through central to Louisiana with localized areas reporting below normal. Sabine River is flowing below to much below normal on the west state line. A few stations report below normal activity in Regions 1 and 3 watersheds. Moderate drought remains in Region 3 through Claiborne, Union and Lincoln Parishes. Surrounding area in Region 3 remains below normal. Region 1 watershed continues below normal through Webster and Bossier Parish, and following the Red River and Bayou Pierre south, downstream through de Soto and Sabine Parishes.
WT HAB Tracker from the satellite surveillance program of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS)
The latest satellite image from NCCOS was captured yesterday, Dec 16 at a surface wind speed 2.2 mph with mostly cloudy conditions obscuring the view of the surface. Widespread bluegreen algae is observed in Black Bay, 400 thousand cells per ml. The image captured Dec 15 showed the west bay of Lac des Allemands with two widespread HABs matching the color scale for concentration at 500 thousand cells per ml.
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