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Carley Shingleton, a graduate research assistant at WVU's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, assists in research to improve wastewater filtration in lagoon-based plants at the Mineral Resources Building. (Photo Matt Sunday courtesy of WVU)
Alarmed about rising levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in America’s water, the Environmental Protection Agency has invested $1 million in West Virginia University assistant professor Kevin Orner’s wastewater treatment research.
Orner’s team of environmental engineers at the...