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1/27/2025
WT Staff
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January 27, 2025 1042 am CST
New Orleans East Bank loss of water pressure forces a BWA
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
Orleans Parish: New Orleans East Bank water customers are under a precautionary boil water advisory following a drop in water pressure yesterday. The SWBNO says water pressure in the area fell below 20 psi due to a power surge at the Carrollton Water Treatment plant. All connections impacted with the low pressure event are required to sanitize the tap water by boiling for at least one minute at a rolling boil for all water intended for drinking, making ice, food preparation and oral hygiene, until further notice.
Louisiana Dept of Health Office of Public Health released a list of 127 drinking water facilities with BWAs last week Thursday, impacted by the widespread freezing last week. As of last week Thursday, January 23, 574,093 Louisiana residents plus businesses, schools, institutional and governmental sites were under boil water advisories. WTLA.us has reached out to LA Dept of Health media room for an update on the BWA status.
See the Louisiana Dept of Health list of BWAs list, here.
Jefferson Parish: BWAs have been issued widely through the southeast region 5 and 8 watersheds including Lafourche Parish Water District No. 1, impacting more than 81 thousand residents; all of St. Bernard Parish Waterworks customers, 44 thousand residents impacted. Also impacted with boil water orders, New Orleans East and Venetian Isles, parts of Grand Isle, and areas of St. John the Baptist Parish, all due to lowered water pressure and increased demand during the winter storm event.
Terrebonne Parish: Consolidated Waterworks District 1 issued a BWA yesterday for customers along North Bayou Black Dr and Bayou Black Dr. "Low pressure in our system due to low temperatures require a Boil Water Advisory be issued for Customers along North Bayou Black Dr and Bayou Black Dr from 5104 North Bayou Black Dr to 203 Deadwood Rd."
To find out if your connection is included in the BWA, click here.
St. Mary Parish: Patterson has issued a Boil Water Advisory Wednesday following a drop in water pressure. Patterson Water System serves 8456 residents plus businesses from a surface water source in watershed Region 5.
The new EPA quarterly compliance report is out, including the new Serious Violator list. Louisiana has 124 Serious Violator drinking water facilities out of total 1263 active facilities with SDWA permits as of the last audited quarter, ended Sep 30, 2024. WTLA.us summary report is in progress, more to follow. See the prior report here, how drinking water facility compliance in Louisiana compared with Ohio, New York, Georgia and California in the last quarter, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of monitoring stations of the US Geological Survey in Louisiana
Light rain and 62 degrees in New Orleans Monday morning, heading for a daytime high of 66. Extreme drought continues in north central Region 3 watershed continue to impact Claiborne, the west half of Union and all of Lincoln Parish. Severe drought has come on over the weekend in the east part of watershed Region 7 around the Bogue Chitto channel through Washington Parish. Most of Region 7 is now rated on the drought map below normal.
In Region 2 watershed, Big Creek appears to have taken a sharp upward trajectory as of last evening, the provisional data shows a rapid rise from 3 ft to nearly 8 ft overnight, to be confirmed with USGS Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, more to follow. Sabine River is back in the channel in Calcasieu Parish, a month of flooding coming to an end Sunday morning.
See the front page map for water levels updated daily, the blue tag indicates location of high flow, red-brown tags indicate 1st percentile, extreme low flows.
New Orleans Emergency Management - NOLA Ready
NOLA Ready is your partner in emergency preparedness.
"Stay connected, make a plan, gather supplies".
Text NOLAREADY to 77295 for alerts.
See NOLA.gov for more, here.
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