THE BIG STORY / ENVIRONMENT
Palo Alto Puts its Wastewater to Work
The Bay needs less algae-feeding pollution and shorelines ready for higher seas. A new living-levee pilot aims to put the same water to work on both.
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THE BIG STORY
Palo Alto Puts its Wastewater to Work
Wastewater plants supply an estimated 86% of the inorganic nitrogen entering San Francisco Bay in the dry season. That’s algae food, and the Bay’s huge 2022 bloom brought widespread fish deaths. Palo Alto has now built a $4.6 million shoreline pilot to test an extra cleanup stop for some of that treated water. If it works, the approach could help Bay communities cut pollution, restore habitat and prepare for rising seas with the same stretch of shoreline.
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