[Pharmwaste] Wash Post 3/27/06-Sewage Tested for Signs of Cocaine

[Pickrel.Jan at epamail.epa.gov]

Here is the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032600880.html

5 consecutive days of samples (from March 13-17, 2006) were taken from
the Noman Cole POTW in Fairfax County, VA, and tested for cocaine.
The sewage was analyzed for traces of benzoylecgonine, a urinary
metabolite of cocaine, by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Rockville, MD.

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Jan Pickrel
Water Permits Division, Industrial Branch
US Environmental Protection Agency
phone:  (202) 564-7904.
fax:  (202) 564-6431.
pickrel.jan at epa.gov