Bushfire impacts on water quality

Bushfires can impact the quality of our waterways by increasing the amount of poor-quality runoff entering our waterways during significant rain events. This runoff can have a range of impacts on water quality including depleted dissolved oxygen levels, increased sedimentation, algal blooms and fish kills. The factsheet Bushfire impacts on water quality (PDF 138KB) provides information on the various contaminants that can affect water quality after a bushfire and what can be done to minimise these impacts.

Date
February 2020
Publisher
NSW Environment Protection Authority
Type
Publication
Cost
Free
  • ID EPA 2020P2093
  • File PDF 0.4MB
  • Pages 3
  • Name 20p2093-bushfire-impacts-on-water-quality.pdf
 
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