Organic nitrogen exports from urban stormwater wetlands in North Carolina

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 589-594

  Moore, Trisha L C ^a   Hunt, William F ^a   Burchell, Michael R ^a   Hathaway, Jon M ^a  

^a Box 7625   (United States)

Author keywords

Export; Irreducible concentration; ON:TN ratio; Organic nitrogen; Stormwater; Wetland

Indexed keywords

EXPORT; IRREDUCIBLE CONCENTRATION; ON:TN RATIO; ORGANIC NITROGEN; STORMWATERS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; NITROGEN; RUNOFF; SEWAGE;

WETLANDS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; EFFLUENT; ORGANIC NITROGEN; RUNOFF; STORMWATER; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 79951678780     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Aitkenhead-Peterson J.A., Steele M.K., Nahar N., Santhy K. Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in urban and rural watersheds of south-central Texas: land use and land management influences. Biogeochemistry 2009, 96:119-129.
2. Anderson C.J., Mitsch W.J. Sediment, carbon, and nutrient accumulation at two 10 year-old created riverine marshes. Wetlands 2006, 26:779-792.
3. Berg G.M., Gilvert P.M., Jørgensen N.O., Balode M., Purina I. Variability in inorganic and organic nitrogen uptake associated with riverine nutrient input in the Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea. Estuaries 2001, 24:204-214.
4. Berman T., Bronk D.A. Dissolved organic nitrogen: a dynamic participant in aquatic ecosystems. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 2003, 31:279-305.
5. Beutel M.W., Newton C.D., Brouillard E.S., Watts R.J. Nitrate removal in surface-flow constructed wetlands treating dilute agricultural runoff in the lower Yakima Basin, Washington. Ecol. Eng. 2009, 35:1538-1546.
6. Bruland G.L., Richardson C.J. Comparison of soil organic matter in created, restored and paired natural wetlands in North Carolina. Wetl. Ecol. Manag. 2006, 14:245-251.
7. Burchell M.R., Skaggs R.W., Lee C.R., Broome S., Chescheir G.M., Osborne J. Substrate organic matter to improve nitrate removal in surface-flow constructed wetlands. J. Environ. Qual. 2007, 36:194-207.
8. Burton G.A., Pitt R.E. Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers 2002, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
9. Clary J., Urbonas B., Jones J., Strecker E., Quiqley M., O'Brien J. Developing, evaluating and maintaining a standardized stormwater BMP effectiveness database. Water Sci. Technol. 2002, 45:65-73.
10. Craft C., Megonigal P., Broome S., Stevenson J., Freese R., Cornell J., Zheng L., Sacco J. The pace of ecosystem development of constructed Spartinaalterniflora marshes. Ecol. Appl. 2003, 13:1417-1432.
11. Evans, R., Burchell, M., Grabow, G., Bass, K., Broome, S., Vepraskas, M., Shear, T., 2009. Final report to the NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program: North River wetland restoration research. North Carolina State Univ. Retrieved from http://www.nceep.net/pages/pdfs/NCSU_NCEEP_NR_FinalReport081509.pdf.
12. Fleming-Singer M.S., Horne A.J. Balancing wildlife needs and nitrate removal in constructed wetlands: the case of the Irvine Ranch Water District's San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary. Ecol. Eng. 2006, 26:147-166.
13. Garcia-Garcia V., Gomez R., Vidal-Abarca M.R., Suarez M.L. Nitrogen retention in natural Mediterranean wetland-streams affected by agricultural runoff. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 2009, 13:2359-2371.
14. Ghosh D., Gopal B. Effect of hydraulic retention time on the treatment of secondary effluent in a subsurface flow constructed wetland. Ecol. Eng. 2010, 36:1044-1051.
15. Haidary A., Nakane K. Comparative study of nitrogen dynamics in three wetlands in the Higashi-Hiroshima area, western Japan. Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2009, 18:617-626.
16. Hathaway J.M., Hunt W.F. An evaluation of stormwater wetlands in series in Piedmont, North Carolina. J. Environ. Eng. 2010, 136:140-146.
17. Hathaway, J., Hunt, W., Johnson, A., 2007. City of Charlotte pilot BMP monitoring program: Edwards Branch wetland final monitoring report. North Carolina State Univ. Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC. Retrieved from http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/stormwater/PublicationFiles/CLT_EdwardsBranchWetland_2007.pdf.
18. Johengen T.H., LaRock P.A. Quantifying nutrient removal processes within a constructed wetland designed to treat urban stormwater runoff. Ecol. Eng. 1993, 2:347-366.
19. Johnson, J., 2007. Evaluation of stormwater wetland and wet pond forebay design and stormwater wetland pollutant removal efficiency. M.S. Thesis. North Carolina State Univ., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC. Retrieved from http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12122006-155603/.
20. Jones, J., Clary, J., Strecker, E., Quigley, M., 2008. 15 reasons you should think twice before using percent removal to assess BMP performance. Stormwater 9 (1). Retrieved from http://www.stormh2o.com/january-february-2008/pollutants-research-bmp.aspx.
21. Kadlec R.H. The effects of wetland vegetation and morphology on nitrogen processing. Ecol. Eng. 2009, 33:126-141.
22. Kadlec R.H., Wallace S.D. Treatment Wetlands 2009, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
23. Knight R.L. Wildlife habitat and public use benefits of treatment wetlands. Water Sci. Technol. 1997, 35:35-43.
24. Lenhart H.A., Hunt W.F. Evaluating four stormwater performance metrics with a North Carolina coastal plain stormwater wetland. J. Environ. Eng. 2011, 137:155-162.
25. Line D.E., Jennings G.D., Shaffer M.B., Calabria J., Hunt W.F. Evaluating the effectiveness of two stormwater wetlands in North Carolina. Trans. ASABE 2008, 51:521-528.
26. McNett J.K., Hunt W.F., Osborne J.A. Establishing stormwater BMP evaluation metrics based upon ambient water quality associated with benthic macro-invertebrate populations. J. Environ. Eng. 2010, 136:535-541.
27. Mitsch W.J., Gosselink J.G. Wetlands 2007, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
28. Pardo L.H., Driscoll C.T., Likens G.E. Patterns of nitrate loss from a chronosequence of clear-cut watersheds. Water Air Soil Pollut. 1995, 85:1659-1664.
29. Pellerin B.A., Wollheim W.M., Hopkinson C.S., McDowell W.H., Williams M.R., Vorosmarty C.J., Daley M.L. Role of wetlands and developed land use on dissolved organic nitrogen concentrations and ON/TN in northeastern U.S. rivers and streams. Limnol. Oceanogr. 2004, 49:910-918.
30. Pellerin B.A., Kaushal S.S., McDowell W.H. Does anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment increase organic nitrogen concentrations in runoff from forested and human-dominated watersheds?. Ecosystems 2006, 9:852-864.
31. Schueler T.R., Holland H.K. Article 65: irreducible pollutant concentrations discharged from stormwater practices. The Practice of Watershed Protection 2000, Cent. Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD, pp. 377-380.
32. Seitzinger S.P., Sanders R.W., Styles R. Bioavailability of ON from natural and anthropogenic sources to estuarine plankton. Limnol. Oceanogr. 2002, 47:353-366.
33. Spieles D.J., Mitsch W.J. The effects of season and hydrologic and chemical loading on nitrate retention in constructed wetlands: a comparison of low- and high-nutrient riverine systems. Ecol. Eng. 2000, 14:77-91.
34. Stepanauskas R., Leonardson L., Tranvik L.J. Bioavailability of wetland-derived ON to freshwater and marine bacterioplankton. Limnol. Oceanogr. 1999, 44:1477-1485.
35. Strecker E.W., Quigley M.M., Urbonas B.R., Jones J.E., Clary J.K. Determining urban storm water BMP effectiveness. J. Water Res. Planning 2001, 5:144-149.
36. Thoren A.K., Legrand C., Tonderski K.S. Temporal export of nitrogen from a constructed wetland: influence of hydrology and senescing submerged plants. Ecol. Eng. 2004, 23:233-249.
37. Toet S., Van Logtestijn R.P., Kampf R., Schreijer M., Verhoeven J.A. The effect of hydraulic retention time on the removal of pollutants from sewage treatment plant effluent in a surface-flowwetland system. Wetlands 2005, 25:375-391.
38. Tucker, R.S., 2007. Urban stormwater: first flush analysis and treatment by and undersized constructed wetland. M.S. Thesis. North Carolina State Univ., Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC. Retrieved from http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08172007-180633/.
39. Wossink, A., Hunt, B., 2003. The economics of structural stormwater BMPs in North Carolina. Report 344. Univ. of North Carolina, Water Resources Res. Inst., Raleigh, NC.