News Briefs: Diabetes Drug Discovered Near Lake Michigan Treatment Plants

In this week's water and wastewater news, a study finds metformin in Lake Michigan, increased expenses could end a biosolids program, and New York City christens sludge boats.
News Briefs: Diabetes Drug Discovered Near Lake Michigan Treatment Plants

Researchers with the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have found elevated levels of metformin, a diabetes treatment drug, in Lake Michigan. Levels of 40 ppb were detected outside one treatment plant. About two miles away, the levels dropped...

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