Synagro

 While searching for an internship opportunity this summer I came across a company called Synagro. The company specializes in waste water treatment, where laborers take out human biohazards, run it through dewatering presses and then take the product and spread it onto farmland. The water left over from the sewage is then turned into purified drinking water. Upon further research, I came across a couple articles that caught my attention. There was conflicting articles on this type of fertilizer, along with benefits. It was suggested that using this type of fertilizing method causes runoff into our major waterways containing human feces, while the company argues that under the Chesapeake Bay Water act it is perfectly legal and beneficial to use this type of fertilization. I thought this topic was interesting because I never thought about where our waste goes and what is done with it after flushing the toilet. It broadened my knowledge in the field of wastewater, and I feel that this argument is beneficial for this corse.