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In 2014, the city made strides in keeping excess phosphorous and nitrogen (which contribute to unhealthy river algae blooms) out of the Clark Fork River by planting 90,000 hybrid poplar trees irrigated with the facility's treated effluent. Instead of reaching the river, trace amounts of phosphorous and nitrogen in the treated effluent are absorbed by the trees as nutrition.