Pollutant removal from municipal sewage lagoon effluents with a free-surface wetland

Water Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2803-2812

  Cameron, Kimberley ^a   Madramootoo, Chandra ^b   Crolla, Anna ^c   Kinsley, Christopher ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constructed wetland; Free surface; Slag filter; Vegetated filter strip ; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; EFFLUENTS; SEWAGE LAGOONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WETLANDS;

SLAG FILTERS;

WATER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CELL FREE SYSTEM; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAGOON; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; VEGETATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037616414     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(03)00135-0     Document Type: Article

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