1/16/2025
WT Staff
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January 16, 2025 1201 pm CST
Church Point, Vacherie BWAs
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Acadia Parish: Town of Church Point Water System issued a BWA yesterday for customers on MLK Dr., Chicot Alley, Green Alley, Wilson, Candy, Vallery, Amy, Joseph, Hicks, Mesh, and Nest Point until further notice. Town of Church Point serves 4176 residents from a groundwater source in Region 5 watershed.
St James Parish: St James Water District 2 issued a boil water advisory yesterday for customers of Magnolia Heights in Vacherie . St James WD 2 serves 7513 residents from a surface water source in watershed Region 6, the raw water is obtained from an intake in the Mississippi River, treated and distributed at the Vacherie water treatment facility.
Streamflow Situation from the network of monitoring stations of the US Geological Survey in Louisiana
Streamflows run normal to above seasonal normal statewide with flooding in Regions 1 and 3 going on another day. In all of the US network of the USGS, there are just 10 stations recording flooding. Three of these flood events are occurring in Louisiana. Bayou Dorcheat is receding, down a foot over the last 24 hours, running 5 inches over the channel near Springhill in Region 1. Calcasieu River got a foot higher overnight, the flooding near Glenmora now more than two feet above the channel in watershed Region 4. Sabine River is still flooding in Calcasieu Parish, the water level is up slightly, ten inches over the minor flood stage.
Fair conditions in New Orleans at 62 degrees, mostly sunny, not getting much warmer today, the high 63. A chance of showers tomorrow night. Fair, 54 degrees in Shreveport with an expected daytime high of 62, mostly sunny, isolated showers anticipated tomorrow afternoon.
See the front page map for water levels updated daily, black tags indicate the location of active flooding.
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