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Water Pollution
Meeting May 13-14
State and municipal wate pollution control authorities consultants, engineers, biologists industrialists, and other interestec persons from Virginia will tx meeting with others from state! in the mid Atlantic area ir Fredericksburg, Virgnia, May li and 14 to learn about the latesl developments in fighting watei pollution.
The meeting, being held by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (FWPCA), will center around the latest techniques available to treat waste water and the costs of such treatment, according to Eugene Jensen, director of the FWPCA Mid-Atlantic Region.
Jensen said overenrichment of the Nation’s waters from too much nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, is a very real threat to water quality and will take entirely new approaches to control.
“As population increases,” Jensen said, “the amount of municipal sewage--and thus, the amount of nutrients -increases accordingly. Practically none of the waste treatment plants in this country were built to remove nutrients from the water they treat. As a result, increasing amounts of nutrients are reaching our streams and rivers.”
“Too much nutrients lead to eutrophication which leads to oxygen depletion which, in turn, destroys aquatic I i f e , n d eventually, the water itself,” he said.
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