Santa Rosa water official: speed and coordination prevented widespread post-fire contamination
Jennifer Burke, director of Santa Rosa Water, said the utility learned to reestablish pressure, flush and test quickly after the Tubbs Fire and used those procedures to avoid contamination in later incidents; she urged continued funding for infrastructure resilience and regional coordination.
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Jennifer Burke, director of the City of Santa Rosa Water Department, told the committee that during the 2017 fires her utility discovered wildfire-related contamination of the water system and spent a year recovering Fountain Grove. She said the learning led to a published "wildfire concept of operations plan for water distribution system testing and recovery" created in partnership with the Water Research Foundation and Purdue.
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