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2/2/2025
WT Staff
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February 2, 2025 1003 am PST
Flooding in North Coast, Central Valley watersheds
Streamflow Situation from the network of US Geological Survey river monitoring stations in California
Visalia Municipal Airport is clear and sunny, 46 degrees with a high 61. Raining in San Francisco, 57 degrees with a high 61, up to a quarter of an inch possible through the day, another tenth of an inch coming overnight. Los Angeles is mostly sunny, 56 degrees, the high 63. Its mostly cloudy in San Diego and 59 degrees, the daytime high getting up to 61F.
Streamflows spiked with recent rains have the monitoring stations recording much above seasonal normal to high through the North Coast, northwest Central Valley and San Francisco watersheds. Cow Creek is recording active flooding near Millville, near two feet over the banks and rising rapidly. Colgan Creek is flooding near Sebastopol, over 75 ft deep. A number of monitoring stations are recording 99th percentile extreme high flows, see the front page map for the details, blue tags for high flow, black for flooding.
Central coast flows continue to run below normal to much below seasonal normal, Los Angeles watershed recording mostly normal water levels with continued risk for mudslides, see road closures, here.
San Diego watershed continues to see a wide range of ratings from much above seasonal normal to low. Interior watersheds Lahontan and Colorado River head below normal, the drought map continues to rate these areas below normal as well. See the front page map for flood events in black, 99th percentile high flows in blue.
Safe Drinking Water Advisories
The WTCAL.us Serious Violator list is out, the latest quarterly records audit from the US EPA has California drinking water facilities at 93.5% compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act. The January 11th data refresh applies to all drinking water facilities in the USA, based on the reporting period ended September 30, 2024. Twenty-four of 7417 licensed and active drinking water facilities in California have significant violations in the latest audit, up five from the previous reporting. WTCAL.us congratulates the following facilities that have successfully remedied their operations, no longer EPA Enforcement Priorities:
- Cazadero Water Company Inc
- Eastin in Stanislaus County
- Foothill Mutual Water Company
- Pavestone in Yolo County
- Pit River Chimney Rock
See the new WTCAL.us Serious Violator List, here.
See Los Angeles County list of the drinking water notices, here. Scroll down to Water Alerts.
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