{"id":243569,"date":"2026-09-03T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/in-2010-us-scientists-released-dye-into-montanas-missouri-river-and-tracked-it-across-41-2-miles-one-reservoir-held-the-plume-for-8-2-hours-helping-predict-chemicalspill-timing"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:07:02","slug":"in-2010-us-scientists-released-dye-into-montanas-missouri-river-and-tracked-it-across-41-2-miles-one-reservoir-held-the-plume-for-8-2-hours-helping-predict-chemicalspill-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/in-2010-us-scientists-released-dye-into-montanas-missouri-river-and-tracked-it-across-41-2-miles-one-reservoir-held-the-plume-for-8-2-hours-helping-predict-chemicalspill-timing","title":{"rendered":"In 2010, US scientists released dye into Montana\u2019s Missouri River and tracked it across 41.2 miles; one reservoir held the plume for 8.2 hours, helping predict chemicalspill timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-2010-us-scientists-released-dye-into-montanas-missouri-river-and-tracked-it-across-41-2-miles-one-reservoir-held-the-plume-for-8-2-hours-helping-predict-chemicalspill-timing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A river can carry a contaminant far beyond the point where it enters the water, but predicting exactly how quickly that material will travel is not always straightforward. In 2010, scientists with the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A river can carry a contaminant far beyond the point where it enters the water, but predicting exactly how quickly that material will travel is not always straightforward. In 2010, scientists with the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}