“Fortunately, what we have seen so far tells us the fire is having little impact on water quality,' Jeff Kitchens, chief of ADEM’s Water Division, said. Water test results are on the website for the Moody fire. Links to that and air results are here:
showed “no discernable impact” on water quality in the area.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management says water samples taken from the Cahaba River and Big Black Creek near the fire — approximately 15 miles northeast of Birmingham — showed little to no impact. “Some residents have expressed concern that runoff from the site could be having an adverse effect on the water in nearby streams,” Jeff Kitchens, chief of ADEM’s Water Division, said in a news release. “We started testing the water to see what effect, if any, the fire was having, and to make that information available to the public.The department said that to analyze potential impacts, they began sampling both upstream and downstream of the fire on the Cahaba, and Big Black Creek.
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