Floating wetlands: a sustainable tool for wastewater treatment

MJ Shahid, M Arslan, S Ali, M Siddique… - Clean–Soil, Air …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Floating treatment wetland (FTW) is an effective and sustainable technology for wastewater
treatment. It has been widely adopted for treating various kinds of polluted water including …

Large constructed wetlands for phosphorus control: A review

RH Kadlec - Water, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews aspects of the performance of large (> 40 ha) constructed treatment
wetlands intended for phosphorus control. Thirty-seven such wetlands have been built and …

Floating treatment wetland aided remediation of nitrogen and phosphorus from simulated stormwater runoff

SA White, MM Cousins - Ecological Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Floating treatment wetlands are potential alternatives to traditional constructed wetlands for
remediating nutrient-rich water. This study examined the remediation efficacy of floating …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated assessment of the natural purification capacity of tidal flat for persistent toxic substances and heavy metals in contaminated sediments

T Kim, C Lee, I Kwon, J Lee, SY Park, DU Kim… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural purification of pollutants is highly recognized as regulating ecosystem services;
however, the purification capacity of tidal flats remains largely unknown and/or unquantified …

A review study on the association between hydraulic performance and treatment effectiveness in free surface flow constructed wetlands

NN Idris, LHC Chua, Z Mustaffa, S Das… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
The removal of contaminants by constructed wetland (CW) is typically related to the
residence time and CW design is based on a stipulated residence time, usually 72 h …

Molecular characterization of microbial communities in treatment microcosm wetlands as influenced by macrophytes and phosphorus loading

C Ahn, PM Gillevet, M Sikaroodi - Ecological Indicators, 2007 - Elsevier
There has been little understanding of soil microbial community patterns in phosphorus (P)
processing in treatment wetlands. The description of soil microbial communities has been …

Modelling hydrological processes in created freshwater wetlands: an integrated system approach

L Zhang, WJ Mitsch - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2005 - Elsevier
This study investigates hydrologic processes of four different flow-through created
freshwater wetlands in Ohio, USA, by use of several versions of a simple daily mass-balance …

Carbon storage potential by four macrophytes as affected by planting diversity in a created wetland

MM Means, C Ahn, AR Korol, LD Williams - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Wetland creation has become a commonplace method for mitigating the loss of natural
wetlands. Often mitigation projects fail to restore ecosystem services of the impacted natural …

Constructed marshes for nitrate removal

RH Kadlec - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Large numbers of free water surface treatment wetlands are in use for nitrate reduction.
Target applications are field runoff, river and stream improvement, and enhancement of …

Comparison of nutrient retention efficiency between vertical-flow and floating treatment wetland mesocosms with and without biodegradable plastic

CR Lopardo, L Zhang, WJ Mitsch, H Urakawa - Ecological engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment wetlands are ecological systems that are engineered to improve polluted
water quality through macrophyte, soil, and microbial remediation and are used commonly …