Treatment Wetlands to Keep Hormones Out of Ecosystem?

A new report from the USDA/ Agricultural Research Service indicates that treatment wetlands may be effective at removing hormones from wastewater. There has been increasing concern that agricultural hormones deposited in the ecosystem have found their way into the endocrine systems of fish and wildlife. This is a benefit of these wetlands that we had not considered, nor do we know if hormones are part of the effluent from the Columbia Metro Sewer Plant. But it is an interesting new benefit that is discussed here at Science Daily.