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In response to the 2010 Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder, Colorado, the U.S. Geological Survey collected data to support investigations into the magnitude and critical drivers of water-quality impairment after wildfire. We analyzed chemistry of stream water, sediment, wildfire ash, soil, dust, and mine waste for metals and other parameters in order to evaluate the effects of legacy mining and wildfire on stream chemistry in the Colorado Front Range, USA. This data release includes data that were published earlier (McCleskey et al., 2012; Murphy et al., 2018).
Categories: Data;
Tags: Environmental Health,
Forestry,
Fourmile Creek, Boulder Colorado,
Hydrology,
Land Use Change, All tags...
Mineral Resources,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Water Quality,
Water Resources,
Wildfire,
arsenic,
chemical contaminants,
disturbance,
mining,
water quality, Fewer tags
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Extreme climate events– such as hurricanes, droughts, ice storms, extreme precipitation, and wildfires– have the potential to cause large changes in watershed processes, response, and function. A five-year post-wildfire study of stream chemistry in the Colorado Front Range USA, enabled the analysis of the effects these events have water quality, which is published in the journal article Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A., in review, Fire, flood, and drought: Extreme climate events alter flowpaths and stream chemistry: JGR-Biogeosciences. That article describes how extreme climate events altered concentration-discharge relations in ways that elucidate hydrologic flow paths and...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Fourmile Creek, Boulder, CO,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
climate change,
droughts,
fires, All tags...
floods,
surface water quality, Fewer tags
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