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Flood Warning issued September 17 at 10:44AM EDT until September 17 at 4:45PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...Northwestern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Mercer County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Shelby County in west central Ohio...
* WHEN...Until 445 PM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 1044 AM EDT, radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Between 2.5 and 3.5 inches of rain have fallen.Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are possible in the warned area. - Some locations that may experience flooding include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, New Bremen, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Chickasaw, Montezuma, Tama, Neptune, Carthagena, Bulkhead, State Route 116 at State Route 197, Chattanooga and Kossuth.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

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Scott Nally, director of the Ohio EPA, and Gayle Rominger, executive vice president of YSI Incorporated, Yellow Springs, announce a new website allowing the public to view live water quality readings taken from Grand Lake via five monitoring stations. YSI manufactures the technology.

Related online story:

Website lets public view live lake data from stations

GRAND LAKE - State officials will be keeping an eye on Grand Lake without leaving their offices.

However officials were in the area Monday to view five water quality monitoring stations put in the lake in May and to announce a website providing the data. [More]

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