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Wei Zheng, University of Illinois

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Rural sewage treatment lagoons remove most, but not all, of the pharmaceutical and personal care product (PPCPs) and hormone contaminants from wastewater, suggests a new study lead by Wei Zheng, University of Illinois senior research scientist at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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