Given the methodological focus on capturing unadorned oral histories of a demographically varied group of persons directly impacted by the spill, Hoey’s emphasis in the project has been to facilitate analysis and interpretation of recurring thematic elements revealed in narratives accounts of the ongoing, lived experience of the water crisis. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork on the role of place in the construction of individual and community identity, Hoey gives special attention to emergent themes of disruption in relationship to place and the potential long‐term psychosocial impact of shifts in personal and group understandings and meaningful relationships with place.