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microBEnet Fieldwork: Wastewater Treatment Plant

By David Coil   Posted in .Featured Water Systems
Posted on May 22, 2018May 23, 2018

So yesterday morning, Jonathan Eisen and myself headed down to Antioch, CA to sample a pilot wastewater treatment facility.  In a couple of hours I went from knowing literally nothing about the process to having some handle on at least the latter stages.  Pretty cool microbiology. As I understand the problem at hand, conventional wastewater …

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