tt comment - fri, jul 3, 2015

Excerpts from a Jul 2, 2015 Tom Henry blog "post":http://toledoblade.typepad.com/ripple-effect/2015/07/records-confirm-toledo-waterways-got-slammed-big-time-by-sewage-spills-last-weekend-adding-to-lake-e.html

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*Raw, filthy toilet waste flowed into Toledo-area streams* for at least five consecutive hours at 26 locations last Saturday, [June 27] 10 of which spilled more sewage waste for five hours or more on Sunday.   

One site in North Toledo spilled raw sewage into the *Ottawa River* for 20 consecutive hours on Saturday, then spilled raw sewage into that same location for nearly 22 consecutive hours on Sunday.
 
South Toledo had one outlet that spilled untreated toilet waste into *Swan Creek*, a *Maumee River* tributary, for 24 consecutive hours on Sunday after spilling sewage more than 10 consecutive hours into the creek on Saturday.
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br. But nothing from Henry about what was "spewed":https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/06/30/Basements-wet-but-city-avoided-sewage-spills.html by the city earlier this week.

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Public Utilities Director Edward Moore said the sewer system worked well because *no untreated sewage* bypassed the city’s wastewater treatment plant into the *Ottawa and Maumee rivers.*
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br. Jul 2, 2015 Blade "story":http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/07/02/June-s-rainfall-levels-historic-for-Toledo.html our June rains.

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June’s rainfall went from merely above average to historic for Toledo when 3.33 inches fell on Saturday [at TOL].

The rain caused widespread flooding also put the month into fourth place for all-time June rainfall, at 7.22 inches. That’s 3.65 inches above normal for June. 

Toledo’s June record is 8.48 inches, which was set in 1981.
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For the month of June, my rain gauge totaled 8.15 inches. During the final two days of May, I recorded 1.08 inches of rainfall. Over a 32-day stretch, 9.23 inches of rain fell.  

It's possible that some parts of Lenawee, Monroe, Henry, and Wood counties received more than 10 inches of rain over that same 32-day stretch.


br. The winter of 2014-2015 officially ended on Tue, Jun 30. More from the Jul 2 Blade story:

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Tuesday also closed the books on Toledo’s seasonal snowfall total, which is measured for a July 1-June 30 year.

Despite a record-setting 25.3 inches in February, Toledo’s snowfall for the winter of 2014-15 fell short of the Top 10 list.

According to the weather service, 45.7 inches fell at Toledo Express for the whole winter, about seven inches above normal but 3.5 inches below the 49.2-inch snowfall from 1936-37 that now occupies 10th place on the list.

The record was set in 2013-14, when 86.3 inches fell through the winter at Toledo’s main airport.
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