Topeka’s Oakland Wastewater Treatment plant recently had more genetic remnants of COVID-19 floating in its sewage than 91% of the other facilities evaluated in a nationwide study. The Oakland plant at 1115 N.E. Poplar Ave. is among about 330 treatment plants that took part in the study by Biobot Analytics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based wastewater epidemiology firm. The company tested sewage for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. The study’s results offer a rough measure, in hindsight, of how often people in the areas involved were infected with the coronavirus, said Dan Zeller, plant operations manager for the city’s water pollution control division.
Source: CJonline.com.
