shansterableWelp. That's the end of COVID wastewater data in my county.
Last year I noticed that the CDC's COVID wastewater data map indicated "No Recent Data" for my sewershed since mid-November 2024. I finally called the Lynden Public Works office (twice) to get an answer for why. This was the response they sent me:
"I had a talk with our Plants superintendent regarding the wastewater testing and reporting to the CDC. I was informed that this was done during the pandemic with some grant money that was available. This was stopped once the pandemic came to an end and there was no more grant money.
There is talk at the treatment plants on whether they would like to start this process again though and may be brought back on in the future."
Sometime between today and yesterday, the dot on the CDC map for my nearest sewershed collection area (#2124 Whatcom County) disappeared.
I'm going to lobby my city's public works department to take over data collection from that jurisdiction. We deserve to know the level of COVID (and other pathogens) circulating in our community.
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