John Lewis, an environmental specialist for Colorado Springs Utilities, collects wastewater samples, which are sent twice weekly to a state lab to be tested for the presence of COVID-19. (Courtesy Colorado Springs Utilities)
Colorado Springs Utilities worker John Lewis collect small samples of wastewater twice weekly, which are tested for the presence of COVID-19, under a nearly three-year-old statewide wastewater surveillance program that was born out of the pandemic.
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