Mitigating extreme water supply contamination in bushfire burned catchments

该项目涉及墨尔本水务局、环境和初级产业部以及东吉普斯兰水务局开发工具，以评估将保护我们的供水并提高澳大利亚社区对森林大火的抵御能力的缓解方案。2003年、2007年、2009年和2013年，澳大利亚东南部发生了严重的森林大火，随后发生了风暴，引发了集水区极端的土壤侵蚀事件，污染了供水，破坏了关键的基础设施。在未来更容易发生火灾的情况下，减轻城镇供水中断风险的能力目前受到我们对火灾后污染事件发生的地点、原因和频率的了解的限制。本项目旨在解决这些知识差距。

This project involves Melbourne Water, the Department of Environment and Primary Industries, and East Gippsland Water in developing tools to evaluate mitigation options that will protect our water supplies and increase the resilience of Australian communities to bushfire. Major bushfires in south-east Australia in 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2013 were followed by storms that triggered extreme soil erosion events in catchments, contaminating water supplies and damaging critical infrastructure. The capacity to mitigate the risk of interruption to the water supplies of our cities and towns in a more fire-prone future is currently limited by our knowledge of where, why, and how often these post-fire contamination events will occur. This project aims to address these knowledge gaps.