Application of floating treatment wetlands to stormwater management - A pilot mesocosm study

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2011, ASABE 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2318-2326

  Wang, Chih Yu ^a   Sample, David James ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best management practices (BMPs); Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs); Pollutant control; Stormwater runoff; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ENGINEERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXPERIMENTS; INNOVATION; LAKES; NITROGEN REMOVAL; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION; SEWAGE; STORM SEWERS; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER QUALITY;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING METHODS; FIELD CONDITIONS; IRIS PSEUDACORUS; MESOCOSMS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUTRIENT REMOVAL; NUTRIENT REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PILOT STUDIES; PLANT SPECIES; POLLUTANT CONTROL; REDUCED SPACE; RETENTION POND; SCHOENOPLECTUS TABERNAEMONTANI; STORM WATER RUNOFF; STORMWATER MANAGEMENTS; TREATMENT WETLANDS; TYPHA LATIFOLIA; URBAN AREAS; URBAN RUNOFF; URBAN STORMWATER; VIRGINIA; WATERBODIES;

WETLANDS;

EID: 81255168693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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