The clean up job is nearly completed in many areas now, but some burned out properties have not been touched, it might be several more months before all this is taken care of and the winter rains are active as you know and that can send debris into storm drains and it just makes a total mess.

After the recent rains, how has the creeks and waterways faired?  Strange thing about fire ash like this is that the really small particles of stuff is virtually the same as water repellant but somehow finds its way into our creeks and streams.

 Hope all is going well with the clean up down there.

Cary

Firescape LLC

Nothern California

Cary,

The Malibu Bay Colony here has some residents complaining, I do not blame them. The heal the bay committee group was trying to figure out what to do about the creek next to the Cross Creek shopping center, it's always been a problem but it looks pretty ugly right now. Nature will bounce back, but it is pretty concentrated there. Yuk. - Lance 

Hey Lance,  that was the question I was going to ask.  How does this affect the local wildlife in the water?  With so much of it...but nowhere to put it.  Wouldn't it be something if fire ash coule be recycled in to something? 

It's amazing how everything overlaps.  While one species will do something to help themselves, another is harmed.  I do believe that nature will bounce back as you stated...but how long will it take?  :)

I'm glad to hear that most of your area has been cleaned up.  I would imagine that ash causes serious health complications for many, many people.

Not much is living right now in the creek, the oxygen is completely depleted, but there are frogs and small animals around it and birds. Mosquitos too, unfortunately, this will come back they need a filter system, but getting environmental permits for that could take months. Lance