Q River Rolls Along, As Does Its Cleanup
NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT – More than ten years ago, Courtney McGinnis was an associate professor of biology at Quinnipiac University and on a team of faculty and student environmental sleuths.
They were looking for the source of phenothiazine in the Quinnipiac river, along with assessing the possible presence of phthalates — toxic effluents — used in making certain plastics, which were detected running into the Quinnipiac River between Wallingford and North Haven.