Publications by authors named "Katelyn Reeves"
Pathogen surveillance within wastewater rapidly progressed during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and informed public health management. In addition to the successful monitoring of entire sewer catchment basins at the treatment facility scale, subcatchment or building-level monitoring enabled targeted support of resource deployment. However, optimizing the temporal and spatial resolution of these monitoring programs remains complex due to population dynamics and within-sewer physical, chemical, and biological processes.
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- Daily composite wastewater samples were collected from 20 locations on the University of Colorado Boulder campus to monitor SARS-CoV-2 levels as part of COVID-19 public health guidance.
- Low-cost autosamplers were created in-house, allowing for the efficient collection of 1512 samples from August 25 to November 23, 2020, and SARS-CoV-2 concentrations were analyzed using two reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction methods.
- The results showed that raw wastewater concentrations accurately reflected campus infection trends, enabling timely data delivery to stakeholders to aid in decision-making and assess the effectiveness of interventions during the pandemic.