eWater’s Source modelling provides a valuable tool to help water and catchment managers predict the impacts of the recent bushfires on river systems and water supplies. Source has a number of rainfall-runoff models which can be directly parameterized to reflect changes to runoff volumes due to forest destruction and regrowth. Source water system models using […]
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Bushfire impacts on hydrology
Changes to the quality of runoff Past bushfires have resulted in significant water quality emergencies, for example: contamination of water supply reservoirs in Canberra’s Cotter catchment, leading to disruptions to water supply and the need to construct a new water treatment plant (White I. et al, 2006) a significant fish kill due to near-zero dissolved oxygen levels […]
