DENVER — In north Denver, there is a literal river of wastewater.
About 130 million gallons of it are treated every day at Metro Water Recovery’s Robert W. Hite wastewater treatment facility. That treated water is then sent back into the South Platte River. Some of the sewage, however, is taken out and tested instead.
“Wastewater-based epidemiology has been around for a long time, but since COVID, it’s really taken off,” said Natalie Love, laboratory research manager for Metro Water Recovery…