Clayton Weingartner
7:47 - 8:11
"These are our pathogen targets or disease targets. The ones in red are the ones we currently have online here in Alaska. Most notable, I wanted to bring attention to measles."
“These are our pathogen targets or disease targets. The ones in red are the ones we currently have online here in Alaska. Most notable, I wanted to bring attention to measles.”
- Speaker
- Clayton Weingartner
- Timestamp
- 7:47 – 8:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
One of the other benefits is we can collect some additional metadata, like flow rate. To make sense of our wastewater data, we do collect additional data points, like, you know, how many gallons— how many millions or thousands of gallons of water are running through the system during the day. These are our pathogen targets or disease targets. The ones in red are the ones we currently have online here in Alaska. Most notable, I wanted to bring attention to measles.
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