Mitigating Source Water Risks with Improved Wildfire Containment
In many fire-prone watersheds, wildfire threatens surface drinking water sources with eroded contaminants. We evaluated the potential to mitigate the risk of degraded water quality by limiting fire sizes and contaminant loads with a containment network of manager-developed Potential fire Operational...
Main Authors: | Benjamin M. Gannon, Yu Wei, Matthew P. Thompson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-08-01
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Series: | Fire |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/3/45 |
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