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Article: Experts sift data on storm water pathogens, await new filter system.(Y)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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By Catherine Kozak
The Virginian-Pilot
NAGS HEAD
The construction of a bacteria-catching filter at an ocean outfall here is on hold, but a study of eight Outer Banks outfalls is overflowing with information on the water traveling through the storm drains.
For two years, coastal scientists have been testing the storm water that flows through the big pipes into the ocean during and after rainfall. They now have a massive amount of data to analyze the concentration and flow of potentially dangerous pathogens in storm water discharged into the ocean.
"There's 900,000 to 1 million gallons flowing through each pipe for every inch ...