How a Florida Utility Combines Wastewater Treatment With Raptor Rehabilitation

Tallahassee’s spray irrigation field for water reuse provides an ideal site for releasing raptors rescued by a wildlife hospital.
How a Florida Utility Combines Wastewater Treatment With Raptor Rehabilitation
Volunteers band rehabilitated Mississippi kites before their release at the Southeast Farm Wastewater Reuse Facility.

In summer 2015, a rehabilitated bald eagle and five orphaned Mississippi kites were released to the Florida skies from the award-winning Tallahassee Wastewater Reuse Facility, known as the Southeast Farm.

The location was chosen by officials of a wildlife hospital who had...

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