Nov. 16, 2015

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URI study: Beaver dams help keep water cleaner

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — In Rhode Island’s battle to keep its waters clean, count beavers among the state’s allies.

A new study by a team of scientists at the University of Rhode Island has found that beaver dams help remove dissolved nitrogen, a nutrient that washes into waterways from fertilizers and underground septic systems and contributes to low-oxygen conditions that can cause fish kills.

Read this article by at The Providence Journal.