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USE OF WETLANDS TO TREAT SEPTIC TANK EFFLUENT FROM A CONFERENCE FACILITY
Citation:
NIETCH, C. T., D. S. BROWN, L. J. FICHTER, D. CMEHIL, C. S. REESE, S. BUCHBERGER, AND M. HOFFMAN. USE OF WETLANDS TO TREAT SEPTIC TANK EFFLUENT FROM A CONFERENCE FACILITY. Presented at Stormwater Seminar IV: Watershed Research & Design, Dayton, OH, May 12, 2005.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
The Grailville Retreat Center near Loveland, OH built a wastewater treatment wetland under an experimental permit from OEPA to eliminate overflow from a failing leach field. Grailville allowed the USEPA Risk Management Research Lab in Cincinnati to subdivide the wetland into five channels to create an experimental system for enhanced treatment technology testing at full-scale and in relation to the tracking of long-term baseline performance. Several forms of nitrogen and phosphorus are monitored longitudinally along the treatment path through the wetland. Measurement of all flows into and out of the wetland allow mass, as well as concentration, to be monitored. Plant biomass determinations will be done to try to relate nutrient processing to carbon cycle dynamics in the wetland.