A Wayne State University research team has secured a three-year, $473,566 grant from the Great Lakes Water Authority to tackle the major environmental and operational challenge of optimizing phosphorus removal. The initiative targets the GLWA Water Resource Recovery Facility, the country's largest single-site wastewater treatment plant. Managing flows from 77 communities, including Detroit, across a 1,000-square-mile sewer shed, the facility plays a critical role in keeping excess phosphorus out of Lake Erie and the Rouge River. Without effective removal, phosphorus can trigger large, harmful algal blooms.To ensure the plant can meet increasingly strict environmental regulations, researchers will conduct deep chemical analyses
