The City of Greensboro says that years of monitoring, enforcement and cooperation with local industries have led to a 97 percent reduction in levels of 1,4-dioxane – an unregulated, emerging contaminant – in wastewater discharged into the local environment.
According to a city press release, Greensboro’s Water Resources Department has reduced concentrations of 1,4-dioxane in effluent from the T.Z. Osborne Wastewater Treatment Plant by 97 percent since 2015.
City officials say that Greensboro was the first municipality in North Carolina to proactively identify sources of the chemical and launch a monitoring and minimization program – rather than waiting for formal state or federal regulation…