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tions produced by the sludge.
Spoil banks might become
garden spots and acidic runoff
into streams a major pollu
tant in the eastern United
States stopped at the source.
Two hundred and fifty tons
of spoil were brought to The
Living Filter area on the' Penn
State campus.
Dumped into huge planters, it
was seeded with trees, grasses
and legumes, then spray-irrigat
ed with varying combinations of
liquid digested sludge and sew
age effluent.
The results, in two growing
seasons, have been-astonishing.
But creators of The Living
Filter are by no means ready
to wind up their research. New
studies are under way to define
the more subtle efforts of add
ing fifty to one, hundred inches
of wastewater, annually, to a
specific natural environment.
These include studies of wild
life, vegetation changes-, and
various plant, insect, mammal
and microbial interactions.
“The technique is operation
al now,” says one scientist,
“both for farmlands ahd forest
ed areas. But much more needs
to be known.”
“The Living Filter does pro
vide the means for many cities
to dispose of sewage without
defouling the environment.
“But m'v the-rush to make a
spray-irrigation system opera
tional many problems are going
to arise. We at Penn State feel
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we must continue our experi
ments so we will be able to an
ticipate and provide solutions
to those problems.”
The federal government evi
dently shares this feeling. The
Penn State Waste Water Reno
vation and Conservation Pro
ject has been given a two-year
extension grant by the Interior
Department’s Office of Water
Resources to continue studies
on the spoil bank project and
the Office of Water Quality of
the Environment Protection*
Agency is supporting research
to improve the nitrogen-remov
ing capacity of The Living Fil
ter.
My Neighbors
“I have to take mine home
to have my wife sign it.”
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