University Sustainability Project Incorporates Futuristic Wastewater Reuse Technologies

New rural campus includes graywater reuse, constructed wetlands and advanced rainwater runoff strategies to return as much water as possible to the local aquifer.

University Sustainability Project Incorporates Futuristic Wastewater Reuse Technologies

An outdoor amphitheater is formed by the natural contours of the ground, and surrounding the circular stage area are rain gardens. (Photos courtesy of Chatham University)

 

When it received a grant of 388 acres of land about a decade ago, Chatham University already had a main campus near downtown Pittsburgh and another about a mile east of the main campus. The university’s leaders decided to use a fraction of the newly acquired land for a third...

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