Treatment of baseflow from an urban catchment by a floating wetland system

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 170-180

  Chua, Lloyd H C ^a   Tan, Stephen B K ^b   Sim, C H ^c   Goyal, Manish Kumar ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CPG Consultants Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c Public Utilities Board Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Baseflow; Floating wetland system; Net nutrient reduction; Removal coefficient; Tropical reservoir; Urban catchment

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOWS; NUTRIENT REDUCTION; TROPICAL RESERVOIRS; URBAN CATCHMENT; WETLAND SYSTEMS;

CATCHMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESERVOIRS (WATER); RUNOFF; WETLANDS;

NUTRIENTS;

BASEFLOW; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRASS; NITROGEN COMPOUND; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; URBAN AREA; WASTE TREATMENT; WETLAND;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

POLYGONUM; TYPHA; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA; VETIVERIA; VETIVERIA ZIZANIOIDES;

EID: 84867048544     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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