Interesting Feature Claire Steager, of South Harrison Township, is a student in the master's program in the College of Engineering at Rowan University who would make an interesting feature. After attending Gloucester County College and earning an associate's degree, she entered the competitive engineering program at Rowan.
Nitrates primarily enter the water from agriculture and residential fertilizer and from wastewater.
Given the water concerns reported in South Jersey, her work is certainly relevant to our region. Claire also has worked on projects at Rowan concerning brownfields in Camden, helping to educate the community about the former industrial sites, and evaluated soil contamination in Massachusetts for the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence. Claire and her husband Brian own Green Planet Nursery, a 25-acre business in South Harrison Township where they grow perennials, bushes and trees. They also own Statewide Sludge Management, a firm that serves as a liaison for farmers, businesses and wastewater authorities to arrange for the use of biosolids or food waste residuals as fertilizers on farms. Water is the upcoming commodity.