Sewage ‘detectives’ will search for Fairview Beach’s waste problems (VA)

/ Owner - October 8, 2018

After years of trying to determine the source of human and animal waste polluting the Potomac River at Fairview Beach, King George County officials are calling in an agency whose workers have been likened to crime-scene investigators.  That’s the Hampton Roads Sanitary District, which in 2015 invested more than $400,000 in a microbial source-tracking program, according to The Virginian Pilot. While the newspaper quipped there may never be a TV show called “CSI: Sewage,” HRSD workers use tools similar to detectives investigating murders to find the culprit of fecal bacteria that’s oozing into local waterways.    Read the article………………

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