Grand Canyon to Get Water Treatment Plant
From Times Wire Reports
Grand Canyon National Park will begin construction this year on a $1-million waste-water treatment system on the South Rim, the entry point for most of the park’s visitors.
The system will upgrade an old one that until the late 1990s had allowed waste from a series of lagoons to flow, barely treated, into the surrounding landscape, including habitat for elk and deer.
The four lagoons were built in 1967 to handle waste water from up to 3 million visitors a year to the Desert View overlook.
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