Do wildfires in Canada affect the quality of the Ohio River?

Richard Harrison, executive director of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, or ORSANCO, at left, and Anne Vogel, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, at Smale Park June 28.

Poor air quality like that experienced by smoke from Canadian bushfires in June can negatively affect water quality, but experts have yet to see the impacts of the fire on the Ohio River or the return of harmful algal blooms. With air pollution from Canadian bushfires, the Air Quality Index has reached the “unhealthy” range … Read more