Water Environment Research Article Investigates Effectiveness Of Man-Made Wetland Systems In Filtering Contaminants From Urban Runoff

The open access article for the April 2015 issue of Water Environment Research (WER) investigates the effectiveness of a man-made wetland system, that consisted of linked basins, to determine its role in local flood control and contaminant filtration.

According to WER Editor-in-Chief Tim Ellis, “the authors used a combination of field and lab experiments to characterize the retention and removal of iron, phosphate, and nitrate. Residence time and subsurface flow within the wetland system were found to be key indicators of performance. In addition, rainfall events of a certain magnitude were found to release significant amounts of previously retained phosphate and nitrate.”

Selected WER articles such as this one are available free to the public on a monthly basis through an open-access program.Click here to download the open access article, “Effectiveness of Man-Made Wetland Systems in Filtering Contaminants from Urban Runoff in Milledgeville, Georgia,” by Samuel Mutiti, Hanna Sadowski, Christine Melvin, and Christine Mutiti.

Published by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) since 1928, WER is a popular professional journal that features peer-reviewed research papers and research notes, as well as state-of-the-art and critical reviews on original, fundamental, and applied research in all scientific and technical areas related to water quality, pollution control, and management.

Originally known as the Sewage Works Journal, WER is available in both print and online formats and receives approximately 300 new research submissions each year.

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