Wastewater renovation and reuse: Virus removal by soil filtration

R. G. Gilbert; R. C. Rice; H. Bouwer; C. P. Gerba; C. Wallis; J. L. Melnick

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Wastewater renovation and reuse: Virus removal by soil filtration

R. G. Gilbert, R. C. Rice, H. Bouwer, C. P. Gerba, C. Wallis, J. L. Melnick

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Secondary sewage effluent and renovated water from four wells at the Flushing Meadows Wastewater Renovation Project near Phoenix, Arizona, in operation since 1967, were assayed approximately every 2 months in 1974 for viruses during flooding periods. Viruses, regularly found in the secondary effluent, were not detected in any renovated water samples. Our results indicated that human viral pathogens do not move through soil into the groundwater, but are apparently absorbed and degraded by the soil and reduced in numbers by a factor of at least 10⁴ (99.99 percent removal).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1004-1005
Number of pages	2
Journal	Science
Volume	192
Issue number	4243
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1273580
State	Published - 1976
Externally published	Yes

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