RAPID CITY, South Dakota, Feb. 22 -- The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology issued the following news release: Tao Ye, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at South Dakota Mines, is Mines' primary investigator on a recently awarded three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, which will study the mitigation of disinfection byproducts in drinking water. Chlorine has been used to disinfect drinking water for more than a century. Whe  more