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Ryan Dupont clips vegetation from a test bay at a stormwater research site.

Utah State University and iUTAH researcher Ryan Dupont was featured in an article as he oversees a research study that could unveil new information about low-cost phytoremediation.  The article says that "[i]n cities across the West, precipitation is collected in urban centers by gutters and drains, channeled outside city limits and, in some cases, piped into irrigation canals or natural waterways. This system has been around for decades, but it’s under increasing scrutiny in light of new research that shows stormwater in urban areas carries harmful pollutants to downstream rivers and lakes...."

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For more on the larger impact of this research, visit “Heavy Metals — How Plants can Help Make Stormwater Cleaner,” published on Apr. 16, 2015, on Utah State Today.