Committee OK's the way USDA released wastewater to Ames
December 1, 2006

Municipal wastewater treatment plants are destined to become ever more complex as a range of biological threats - whether natural or man-made - find their way into municipal sewers. An investigative committee has cleared a USDA lab of wrongdoing regarding the lab's release of blood, feces, and urine from animals being tested for diseases like mad cow (chronic wasting) disease. Since one town's wastewater becomes another town's drinking water, municipal wastewater plants will have to become more sophisticated to deal with potential threats, like undetected criminal contamination of one community's wastewater with the intent to harm people living downstream.

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last revised December 2006