'Green' water treatment for the green industries: Opportunities for biofiltration of greenhouse and nursery irrigation water and runoff with constructed wetlands

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 50-54

  Berghage, R D ^a   MacNeal, E P ^a   Wheeler, E F ^b   Zachritz, W H ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTRATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0032976422     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.1.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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