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We’ve been studying the potential connections between use of amendments and soil health for a few years.  That study has a second component; the relationship between soil health and the plants that…

Rationale for Study PFAS are fluorinated compounds that comprise a family of anthropogenic chemicals used for decades to make products resistant to heat, oil stains, grease, and water. Of these,…

By Sally Brown, University of Washington Forest application of biosolids has been a signature beneficial end use in the Pacific Northwest.  The Northwest has also been a leader in quantifying the…

By Karen E. Hodges, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C. & Frank I. Doyle, Wildlife Dynamics Consulting, Inc., Terrace, B.C. Background
Globally, the published work on…

By Ian Pepper, Walter Betancourt, Charles P. Gerba, University of Arizona WEST Center Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) is a rapidly expanding new discipline formerly known as Sewage Surveillance…

By Trung Le, Northwest Biosolids Research Committee and Brown & Caldwell On November 15, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a divisive…

By Anna Beebe, University of Washington There are many ways to describe this past Spring Quarter, “business as usual” was not one of them. If, when, and how would UW reopen? I am lucky I still get…

By Ian Pepper, University of Arizona & WEST Center Background: In Part 1, we described the concept of measuring Coronavirus concentrations in sewage as a leading indicator of the pandemic.…

By Ian Pepper, University of Arizona & WEST Center Background: Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) is a rapidly expanding new discipline formerly known as Sewage Surveillance. The concept behind…

By Sally Brown, University of Washington Drawdown provides solutions that will help us reduce (drawdown) the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.  Biosolids didn’t make the list of solutions.  …