Edo Mcgowan

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The corona virus now impacting China and many other nations. Who watches this transit through wastewater treatment plants?

The corona virus now impacting China and many other nations see transit through wastewater treatment plants. Wastewater treatment plants are major aerosol generators with derived aerosols...

12 February 2020 778 4 View

Crops on non-standard irrigation water

I see that you are working with saline waters. I have a colleague working with oil well recovered frack water for raising Cynodon dactylon, Bermuda grass. He might be interested in discussion

04 April 2017 4,933 1 View

Are you looking at xenobiotics and contaminants of emerging concern in recycled water as used for growing salad crops consumed raw?

Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. Oil-field frac water has now been used to grow Bermuda grass. Recycled wastewater, as a broad class, is being converted to drinking water as well...

16 February 2017 9,751 2 View

Is anyone working with solids removal from influent ahead of digestion?

Stedman had a design that took the solids off ahead of digestion and converted the removed solids to a fuel source. I liked this process as it pulled out a lot of material, which if it had gone...

12 October 2016 5,899 3 View

Will you be tracking effect on discharged antibiotic resistant microbes and their genes?

Back in the late 1970s, the US EPA did an extensive study showing that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were principal contributors to aquatic resource contamination by WWTP generated...

01 January 1970 4,137 1 View

One of the comments came in indicating that the virus was spreading more efficiently as airborne than water borne. Who is working on this?

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...

01 January 1970 5,160 0 View

False nagatives in water quality testing and thus validity of test?

In testing recycled water, as derived from municipal wastewater treatment plants, when testing using the coliform multi-tube most probable number (MPN), the results are typically low counts to...

01 January 1970 1,554 0 View