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Main Title Inventory of Constructed Wetlands in the United States.
Author Brown, D. S. ; Reed, S. C. ;
CORP Author Environmental Engineering Consultants, Norwich, VT.;Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH. Risk Reduction Engineering Lab.
Publisher c1994
Year Published 1994
Report Number EPA-68-CO-0027; EPA/600/J-94/352;
Stock Number PB94-210432
Additional Subjects Environmental protection ; Wetlands ; Inventories ; Sewage treatment ; Municipalities ; Water flow ; Surface waters ; Subsurface drainage ; Environmental engineering ; Design criteria ; Sites ; United States ; Hydraulics ; US EPA ; Graphs(Charts) ; Reprints ; Constructed wetlands ; Organic loading
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NTIS  PB94-210432 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 12p
Abstract
During 1990 and 1991 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sponsored an effort to identify existing and planned constructed wetlands in the U.S. and to collect readily available information from operating systems. The inventory documented the presence of over 150 constructed wetland systems for wastewater treatment, including both free water surface (FWS) and subsurface flow (SF) systems. The majority of the systems identified were SF systems for treating municipal wastewater. FWS systems were separated into three groups based on the design level of effluent water quality. SF systems were separated into three groups based on the basic design approach. The inventory indicated that neither between or within these groups was there consensus regarding basic hydraulic and engineering design criteria, system configuration, or any other aspect, such as, type of vegetation, size and type of media, or pretreatment. Information on location, type of systems, design approach, hydraulic and organic loading rates; costs, and other aspects is presented.