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12/27/2024
WT Staff
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December 27, 2024 updated 127 pm CST
Town of Basile issues BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Evangeline Parish: The Town of Basile Water System has some customers on a BWA following the discovery of a water line leak yesterday. The BWA applies to connections on Paul Bellon Road and Miguel Road until further notice. Town of Basile Water System supplies 2400 customers from a groundwater well source, purchased from another licensed facility in Region 5 watershed.
See how drinking water facility compliance compares in Ohio, New York, Georgia, Louisiana and California, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS monitoring sites in Louisiana
New Orleans reports mostly cloudy, 75 degrees with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly between 3pm and 5pm. Tonight, a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a slight chance of showers after 5am with patchy dense fog coming in after 8pm. Shreveport local forecast center is reporting mostly sunny today, high 69. Rain is likely tomorrow, up to three quarters of an inch possible.
Streamflows in the northwest have shifted with the rain yesterday, rivers and bayous running normal to much above normal water levels through Region 1 and Region 4, all along the west state line. Region 3 received some moisture, enough to bring the streamflows back to seasonal normal. Watershed regions 5 and 7 are still rolling below seasonal normal with one low rating in Region 7. To the drought map, severe drought continues in Region 7 Washington Parish, while Region 3 gets a break, the severe drought has backed down to moderate in Claiborne, Union and Lincoln Parishes. Areas rated below normal appear as reported here yesterday, Region 3 East Carroll, Madison and Tensas Parishes, and Region 1 Bossier Parish. Region 4's Sabine River channel remains below normal, the rest of Region 4 is off the drought map. Region 5 is below normal at Evangeline and Acadia Parishes. Most of Region 7 is now rated below normal.
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 Dec 26 at a surface wind speed 8.5 mph, a mostly cloud obscured image, just Black Bay visible. The widespread HAB off shore and in around the islands appears 300 thousand cells per ml. A prior image captured Dec 24 showed a widespread HAB in Bayou Fortier, a localized HAB in Lac des Allemands and a lakewide HAB in Lake Boeuf, all around 400 thousand cells per ml concentration.
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