The use of constructed wetlands to upgrade treated sewage effluents before discharge to natural surface water in texel island, the Netherlands - Pilot study

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 231-237

  Schreijer, M ^a   Kampf, R ^a   Toet, S ^b   Verhoeven, J ^b  

^a Water Bd Uitwaterende Sluizen H ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coli removal; Constructed wetland; Epiphyton biomass production; Nutrient removal; Oxygen dynamics

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGHER PLANT; LAGOON; NETHERLANDS; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TIME; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURFACE WATER QUALITY;

NETHERLANDS, TEXEL ISLAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); COLIFORM BACTERIA; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ECOSYSTEMS; HYDRAULICS; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEWAGE TREATMENT; SURFACE WATERS;

BACTERIA REMOVAL; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; MACROPHYTES; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT;

EID: 0030609445     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(97)00073-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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