Contaminated Water: Overlooked Effect of Raging Wildfires is Slowly Seeping Into Western US

Enormous wildfires last year razed vast parts of Colorado's mountains, leaving them blanketed in ash - ash that has now been carried away by rains in the river in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Poudre River Whitewater Park and the river has been coated in ashes with sediments from the Wildfire due to the downpour.