Assessing Leached Toc, Nutrients and Phenols from Peatland Soils after Lab-Simulated Wildfires: Implications to Source Water Protection

Pollutant leaching from wildfire-impacted peatland soils (peat) is well-known, but often underestimated when considering boreal ecosystem source water protection and when treating source waters to provide clean drinking water. Burning peat impacts its physical properties and chemical composition, yet the consequences of these transformations to source water quality through pollutant leaching has not been studied in detail. We combusted …