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went into effect in January. Many news media featured the story:
WCCO-TV video http://minnesota. cbslocal.com/2016/12/31/tri- closan-ban-2/
Star Tribune Editorial on Triclosan
http://www.startribune.com/two-key- steps-forward-for-minnesota-s-water- quality/408559255/
BILL ARNOLD and PAIGE NOVAK are part of a co-PI team that received a $60K Grand Challenge Exploratory Research Grant for “Innovations at the
nexus of food, energy, and water: Reclaiming wastewater from local food industries to produce energy and high- value urban crops.”
JOHN GULLIVER
received $200K grant from the Minnesota Local Road Research Board for his project “Characterization of Runoff Quality from
Paved Low Volume Roads and Optimi- zation of Treatment Methods.” Gulliver travelled to South Korea in February 2017. He gave two invited presen- tations: “Technology for Stormwater Treatment” at Dong Guk University,
BILL ARNOLD was instrumental in the research that led to Minnesota becom- ing the first state to ban the germ killer triclosan. The ban
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Seoul, and “Low Impact Development Research in the USA” as part of Tech- nology Advancement and Case Studies in Low Impact Development, University of Pusan, Busan.
The Minnesota Traffic Observatory (MTO), under the direction
of JOHN HOURDOS, is part of a Tier 1 University Transporta- tion Center grant from
the USDOT. UMN will be working with Florida Atlantic University (lead institu- tion), University of Memphis, Portland State University, Texas A&M University, University of Florida Gainesville, and Hampton University. The center, titled Freight Mobility Research Institute (FMRI), was awarded $1,402,200 for freight transportation research. The MTO also successfully completed the I-94 Queue Warning System Imple- mentation. The MTO deployed and maintains the Real-time Queue Warn- ing system for MnDOT at I-94 west- bound in downtown Minneapolis, the Twin Cities busiest section of highway. The system has been up since May 2016, and it just finished a three month evaluation.
RAYMOND
HOZALSKI researches the application of biological processes for the treatment of water, wastewater, and haz- ardous waste, and he
is sought after as a spokesperson on the subject. He was interviewed by Reader’s Digest: “17 Things You Need To Know About Tap Water,” and commented on arsenic found in groundwater supplies
in some parts of western Minnesota, where treatment options are available to remedy it. He was an invited speaker at the spring ACS meeting in San Francisco honoring Mel Suffet (April 2-6, 2017), and he has been invited to speak at the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products July 31-August 4 at Mt. Holyoke College near Springfield, Massachusetts. Closer to home, Hozalski presented to the UMD Department of Civil Engineering with Michael Waak and TIMOTHY LAPARA: “A Tale of Two Cities: Effect of Residual Disinfection on Bacterial Abundance, Community Composition, and Preva- lence of Legionella Spp. in Potable Water Distribution Systems.”
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