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Monitoring water quality after wildfires
The Camp Fire is the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire killed 88 people, according to the most recent estimates, consumed 18,000 homes and other structures, and burned down the entire town of Paradise. Firefighters contained the conflagration only after it rained the week of Nov. 19. But when the weather shifted, not everyone felt at ease. California State University, Chico, water-quality chemist Jackson Webster says he felt a mixture of relief and trepidation when the rain came. The season’s first storm not only tamped down the fire; it also began flushing an unknown mixture of metals, toxic organic compounds, and other chemicals from the air, ash, and debris into the region’s creeks and rivers. Two weeks ago, Webster took his first water samples from a stream that drains from Paradise. The water, he says, has a strong smoky smell. “The first thing you notice is
Researchers are just starting to study how blazes like California’s devastating Camp Fire may contaminate watersheds
10.1021/cen-09648-scicon1-paradisecxd-gr1
A skilled-nursing home in Paradise, California, burns during this fall's deadly Camp Fire. (Credit: Stephen Lam/Reuters/Newscom)
Monitoring water quality after wildfires
The Camp Fire is the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history. The fire killed 88 people, according to the most recent estimates, consumed 18,000 homes and other structures, and burned down the entire town of Paradise. Firefighters contained the conflagration only after it rained the week of Nov. 19. But when the weather shifted, not everyone felt at ease. California State University, Chico, water-quality chemist Jackson Webster says he felt a mixture of relief and trepidation when the rain came. The season’s first storm not only tamped down the fire; it also began flushing an unknown mixture of metals, toxic organic compounds, and other chemicals from the air, ash, and debris into the region’s creeks and rivers. Two weeks ago, Webster took his first water samples from a stream that drains from Paradise. The water, he says, has a strong smoky smell. “The first thing you notice is
Researchers are just starting to study how blazes like California’s devastating Camp Fire may contaminate watersheds
10.1021/cen-09648-scicon1-paradisecxd-gr1
A skilled-nursing home in Paradise, California, burns during this fall's deadly Camp Fire. (Credit: Stephen Lam/Reuters/Newscom)
Monitoring water quality after wildfires
Chemical & Engineering News ; 96 ; 8
2018-12-03
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