Biosolids Experts Downplay Effects of Drugs, Household Chemicals in Land Application

Scare tactic or scientific concern? Wastewater industry experts respond to a recent article that claims biosolids could contaminate groundwater with anti-depressants, hormone-disruptors and more.

Concerned? Not really.

Interested? Of course

That’s the stance biosolids specialists are taking in response to a May 12 article in Scientific American magazine concerning the fate of household chemicals in land application projects.

The article, headlined “Drugs, Chemicals...

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