Wednesday, November 12, 2008

what are constructed wetlands?



Constructed wetlands can be used for primary, secondary and tertiary treatment of municipal or domestic wastewaters, stormwater, agricultural, animal and industrial wastewaters such as landfill leachate, petrochemicals, food wastes, pulp and paper and mining, usually combined with an adequate pre-treatment (Kadlec et al., 2000)

Here a scheme about how they work:


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