Paige Peters, a doctoral student in the Opus School of Engineering, was the grand prize winner of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Enterprise Approach Contest with Quick Radicals Technologies, her Milwaukee-based mostly company which is revolutionizing treatment of merged sewer and storm overflows to avert untreated sewage from remaining dumped into our lakes and rivers throughout floods. Quick Radical’s ground breaking technological innovation lowers existing wastewater remedy time from 8 several hours to 30 minutes, allowing for municipal scale management where by there is a spill level confluence of storm and sanitary sewers. Peters is founder and chief know-how officer for Rapid Radicals, which was among 13 “Diligent (Baker’s) Dozen”…