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Rain may bring trouble to Southern California’s water supply following Station Fire devastation

Posted by: Maven on September 23, 2009 at 10:20 am

pasadena bridgeFrom the Pasadena Star News:

“This year’s first rains – if they come – won’t just bring with them the normal hope that relief from the region’s seemingly perpetual water crisis has arrived.

They will also bring with them soil, debris, and potentially harmful contaminants as they pour down the fire-scorched slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains.

While foothills homeowners are worried about potentially destructive mudslides, water managers are wondering how badly the fires that ravaged 163,000 acres earlier this month will hurt the region’s already precarious water supply.

“These fires are just a bad thing in so many ways. Not only does it take away from our water supply… but when we do get rains, the it will push soil, ash, debris into canyon reservoirs and then we really will have a big mess in there,” said Carol Williams, director of the Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster. …”

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September 23, 2009 · Filed Under Water Quality

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