Sewer upgrade flushes West Nile virus vector from Atlanta stream
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
Just 10 years ago, a heavy rain in Atlanta could turn Tanyard Creek into a river of raw sewage. "You would sometimes see toilet paper hanging from low branches along its banks," recalls Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, a disease ecologist in Emory's Department of Environmental Sciences.