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May 10, 2012

Toxics from everyday life reaching Columbia River

  • The U.S. Geological Survey says wastewater treatment plants were not designed to remove new and emerging contaminants.
    • By JEFF BARNARD
    AP Environmental Writer

    A federal study released this week found more than 100 toxic substances from everyday life are making their way through wastewater treatment plants into the Columbia River.

    “In the past people thought of pollution in the river in terms of smokestack industry on the river or dirty pipes,” said Jennifer Morace, the U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist who was lead investigator on the study.


     
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