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A bright-green local relic with a powerful story to tell about the city and state’s historic role advancing public health has ...

Mineral coatings on sand particles actually encourage microbial activity in the rapid sand filters that are used to treat groundwater for drinking, according to a paper. These findings resoundingly ...

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Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand -- a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world -- into a "super sand" with five times the filtering ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the South Fort green sand filtration system was held March 7 in Fort Polk’s Dogwood Terrace neighborhood. The filtration system’s purpose is to filter out the high levels ...