Abstract
Predicting Wildland Fire Impacts on Public Drinking Water
Track: Water Resources
Author(s): William Samuels, Douglas Ryan, William Elliot, Kevin Hyde, Dan Miller, Deborah Martin, David Calkin, Kelly Burnett
The purpose of this project is to develop an integrated decision support tool to predict impacts of wildland fire on drinking water sources. Federal wildfire managers are required to immediately assess and monitor streams where retardant drops directly impact streams. The ICWater tool, developed to model accidental and intentional threats to public drinking water supplies was used to assess retardant impacts for a case study in Mill Creek, Montana. A second case study was also performed to determine if the runoff and sediment outputs available from GeoWEPP, could be linked to the pollutant routing capabilities of ICWater to aid decision making in establishing fire suppression priorities, and be useful to water supply managers following wildfire in a municipal watershed. The output from the GeoWEPP program provides sufficient information on runoff, sediment yield, and sediment size distribution to provide input for the ICWater program.
William Samuels
SAIC
1710 SAIC Drive
McLean , Virginia 22102
United States
Phone: (703) 676-8043
Fax: (703) 676-5323
E-mail: william.b.samuels@saic.com
Douglas Ryan
USDA Forest Service
3625 93rd Ave SW
Olympia , Washington 98512
United States
Phone: (360) 753-7652
Fax: (360) 753-7737
E-mail: dryan01@fs.fed.us
William Elliot
USDA Forest Service
1221 South Main
Moscow , Idaho 83843
United States
Phone: (208) 882-2338
E-mail: welliot@fs.fed.us
Kevin Hyde
US Forest Service (Contractor)
800 E. Beckwith Avenue
Missoula , Montana 59801
United States
Phone: (406) 329-2137
E-mail: kdhyde@fs.fed.us
Dan Miller
Earth Systems Institute
3040 NW 57th Street
Seattle , Washington 98107
United States
Phone: 206 633 1792
E-mail: danmiller@earthsystems.net
Deborah Martin
USGS
3215 Marine Street
Boulder , Colorado 80303
United States
Phone: 303 541 3024
E-mail: damartin@usgs.gov
David Calkin
USFS
800 East Beckwith
Missoula , Montana 59807
United States
Phone: 406 542 4151
E-mail: decalkin@fs.fed.us
Kelly Burnett
USDA Forest Service
3200 Jefferson Way
Corvallis , Oregon 97331
United States
Phone: 541 750 7309
E-mail: kmburnett@fs.fed.ud