More than 24 hours after igniting Monday, the Magnablend fire is still smoldering.
While the smoke has an awful odor, continued EPA air quality tests show it does not pose a public health threat.
"It's a fire. But the things that are coming off this site that would pose a public health threat, we're not detecting anything significant," said Nicolas Brescia, with the EPA.
What is a concern, though, is the runoff from water firefighters used to douse the blaze with Monday that is now gathered in ditches near the site.
"We had our public works department come in and bring in sand and back hoes, and what they did is they dammed it up where the water goes under the road in front of the college," said Chief David Hudgins, Waxahachie Fire Department.
Preliminary testing on the water showed similar results to the air quality.
"Two minor compounds were the only things that were detected, and they were very low levels," said Jeff Kunze, TCEQ.
But dark brown spots are proof something is in the water, so vacuum trucks are collecting it.
"That water will be recovered. They'll be running waste analytical on it to figure out what it is and where it can go, and then it will be properly disposed of," said Brescia.
Meanwhile, the Navarro College Waxahachie campus adjacent to the site remained closed Tuesday morning. The campus could reopen Tuesday evening.
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