The effect of hydraulic retention time on the removal of pollutants from sewage treatment plant effluent in a surface-flow wetland system

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 375-391

  Toet, Sylvia ^a,c   Van Logtestijn, R S P ^a   Kampf, Ruud ^b   Schreijer, Michiel ^b   Verhoeven, Jos T A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Waterboard Hollands Noorderkwartier   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COD; Fecal coliforms; Hydraulic loading rate; Mass budgets; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Removal processes; Treatment wetlands; Turbidity; Wastewater; Water budgets

Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RETENTION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WETLAND;

EID: 33745083995     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/13     Document Type: Article

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