Coral Study Traces Excess Nitrogen to Maui WWTP

This study is related to a potentially far-reaching U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility and the Clean Water Act

Coral Study Traces Excess Nitrogen to Maui WWTP

Groundwater carrying excess nutrients from treated sewage enters coastal waters through submarine freshwater seeps in the reef off the coast of Maui. (Photo by Peter Swarzenski, USGS)

A new method for reconstructing changes in nitrogen sources over time has enabled scientists to connect excess nutrients in the coastal waters of West Maui, Hawaii, to a sewage treatment facility that injects treated wastewater into the ground.

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