Applicability of a septic tank/engineered wetland coupled system in the treatment and recycling of wastewater from a small community

Environmental Management

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-108

  Mbuligwe, Stephen E ^a,b  

^a ARDHI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

^b Apartment # 2131 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic wastewater; Engineered wetland systems (EWSs); Operation and maintenance; Resource recovery; Septic tank (ST); Wastewater recycling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; WATER RECYCLING; WETLANDS;

DOMESTIC WASTEWATERS; ENGINEERED WETLAND SYSTEMS (EWS); OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; RESOURCE RECOVERY; SEPTIC TANKS (ST); WASTEWATER RECYCLING;

WASTEWATER RECLAMATION;

NITRATE; SULFATE;

MAINTENANCE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; PHASE SEPARATION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SEPTIC TANK; VEGETATION; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; AGRICULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; POACEAE; SEWAGE; TYPHACEAE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AFRICA; DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WORLD;

PHRAGMITES; TYPHA;

AGRICULTURE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POACEAE; TYPHACEAE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 21444460464     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0174-3     Document Type: Article

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