Re: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). My guess is that few, if any of the WWTPs, have functional contingency plans for a serious outbreak of this kind of a pathogen. WWTP are major aerosol generators. The droplets from an aerosol can drift for astonishingly long distances. Plant operators are under the ill-formed opinion that these pathogens can not survive----chlorine is, after all added. This is not accurate that chlorine kills all and there are several areas within a plant that are massive aerosol generators prior to the point of chlorination.
If the plant is supplying recycled water for municipal lawn irrigation, that is usually sprinkler irrigation and aerosol generation is well known from sprinklers.
These are just a couple of avenues for the release of pathogens
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