Re:Sewage Is Helping Cities Flush Out the Opioid Crisis
by dustfinger on Monday May 28, 2018 @01:22PM
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Also Hypochlorous acid reacts, albeit slowly, with DNA and RNA.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochlorous_acid#Reaction_w...
That fact might make any DNA matching inconclusive.
The best you could do is narrow it down to any homes upstream of sample collection, which could be a single neighborhood or an entire city. Or it could be a drifter peeing straight into the sewer grate who doesn't even live in the city.