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PNW Post-Fire Source Water: The 2026 Burn Scars Ahead

The 2026 Pacific Northwest fire season has produced a water problem that has not started yet. The burn scars that matter for source water are not above Seattle or Portland. They are above Wenatchee, Lake Chelan, the Okanogan, the Yakima, The Dalles, Spokane's sole-source aquifer, and Boise.

2026-08-10Read more

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NextGen and the End of the Monolithic National Water Model

NOAA is rebuilding the National Water Model on a new framework called NextGen. The next major release, NWM v4, will be the first to run on it. For projects that use NWM forecasts as a model input or a reference dataset, the character of those forecasts is about to change.

2026-05-27Read more