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Wetland Technology: Practical Information on the Design ©2020 The Author(s) This is an Open Access book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution in the original format for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). This does not affect the rights licensed or assigned from any third party in this book. This title was made available Open Access through a partnership with Knowledge Unlatched. IWA Publishing would like to thank all of the libraries for pledging to support the transition of this title to Open Access through the KU Select 2019 program. Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Water quality standards across the world are being re-written to promote healthier 27 No. Report Technical and Scientific ecosystems, ensure safe potable water sources, increased biodiversity, and enhanced Scientific and Technical Report No. 27 ecological functions. Treatment wetlands are used for treating a variety of pollutant waters, including municipal wastewater, agricultural and urban runoff, industrial effluents, and combined sewer overflows, among others. Treatment wetlands are particularly well-suited for sustainable water management because they can cope with variable influent loads, can be constructed of local materials, have low operations and maintenance requirements compared to other treatment technologies, and they can provide additional ecosystem services. The technology has been successfully implemented in both developed and developing countries. The first IWA Scientific and Technical Report (STR) on Wetland Technology was Wetland Technology published in 2000. With the exponential development of the technology since then, the generation of a new STR was facilitated by the IWA Task Group on Mainstreaming Practical Information on the Design Wetland Technology. This STR was conceptualized and written by leading experts Technology Wetland in the field. The new report presents the latest technology applications within an and Application of Treatment Wetlands innovative planning framework of multi-purpose wetland design. It also includes practical design information collected from over twenty years of experience from practitioners and academics, covering experiments at laboratory and pilot-scale up to full-scale applications. Edited by Günter Langergraber, Gabriela Dotro, Jaime Nivala, Anacleto Rizzo and Otto R. Stein iwapublishing.com @IWAPublishing ISBN: 9781789060164 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781789060171 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789060188 (ePub) Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Wetland Technology Practical Information on the Design and Application of Treatment Wetlands Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Scientific and Technical Report Series No. 27 Wetland Technology Practical Information on the Design and Application of Treatment Wetlands Edited by Günter Langergraber, Gabriela Dotro, Jaime Nivala, Anacleto Rizzo and Otto R. Stein Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Published by IWA Publishing Alliance House 12 Caxton Street London SW1H 0QS, UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7654 5500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7654 5555 Email: [email protected] Web: www.iwapublishing.com First published 2019 © 2019 IWA Publishing Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (1998), no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, or, in the case of photographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licenses issued by the appropriate reproduction rights organization outside the UK. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 9781789060164 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781789060171 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789060188 (ePub) This eBook was made Open Access in January 2020. © 2020 The Editors This is an Open Access eBook distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits copying and redistribution for non-commercial purposes with no derivatives, provided the original work is properly cited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). This does not affect the rights licensed or assigned from any third party in this book. Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Contents List of Abbreviations ....................................................... xi Members of the IWA Task Group on Mainstreaming Wetland Technology ..................................................... xiii Editors and Authors ....................................................... xv Preface ................................................................... xix Chapter 1 Introduction ................................................................ 1 Günter Langergraber, Gabriela Dotro, Jaime Nivala and Otto R. Stein 1.1 Rationale . 1 1.2 Who Should Read this STR? . 2 1.3 Structure of this STR . 2 1.4 How to Use this STR . 2 Chapter 2 Why use treatment wetlands? ............................................... 5 Martin Regelsberger, Fabio Masi and Günter Langergraber 2.1 New Approach to Water Management . 5 2.2 Role of Wetlands in the New Approach . 7 2.3 The New Design Approach for Wetlands . 9 Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 vi Wetland Technology Chapter 3 Design approach for treatment wetlands Günter Langergraber, Martin Regelsberger, Fasil Ejigu Eregno and Arve Heistad .......................................................... 11 3.1 Define the Treatment Objectives . 11 3.2 Which Processes Do We Need to Reach the Design Objectives? . 12 3.3 Which TW Type can be Used to Reach the Specified Objectives? . 12 3.4 Other Important Design Aspects . 12 Chapter 4 Designing wetlands for specific applications ............................... 17 4.1 Introduction . 17 4.2 Treatment Wetlands in Developing Regions . 18 4.2.1 Introduction . 18 4.2.2 Specific considerations during planning, design, construction and operation . 18 4.2.3 Specific considerations for applications in developing regions . 21 4.3 Stormwater Treatment . 23 4.3.1 Introduction . 23 4.3.2 Design objectives . 24 4.3.3 Processes required and TW type to be used . 25 4.3.4 Specific considerations during design and for construction . 26 4.4 Treatment of Combined Sewer Overflows . 29 4.4.1 Introduction . 29 4.4.2 Design objectives . 29 4.4.3 Processes required and TW type to be used . 30 4.4.4 Specific considerations during design and construction . 30 4.5 Agricultural Drainage Water . 32 4.5.1 Design objectives . 32 4.5.2 Processes required and type to be used . 32 4.5.3 Specific considerations during design and for construction . 34 4.6 Sludge Treatment Wetlands . 35 4.6.1 Design objectives . 35 4.6.2 Processes required and TW type to be used . 35 4.6.3 Specific considerations during design and for construction . 37 4.7 Biomass Production . 38 4.7.1 Perspectives for energy production from TW biomass . 38 4.7.2 Sources and production of bioenergy within or post TW . 38 4.7.3 Design objectives . 40 4.7.4 Specific considerations during design, for construction and operation . 41 4.8 Treatment for Pathogen Removal . 42 4.8.1 Introduction . 42 4.8.2 Processes required and TW type to be used . 42 Downloaded from https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book-pdf/644599/wio9781789060171.pdf by IWA Publishing, [email protected] on 14 August 2020 Contents vii 4.9 Treatment of Micropollutants . 44 4.9.1 Introduction . 44 4.9.2 The removal of micropollutants from water in treatment wetlands . 44 4.9.3 Mechanisms involved in the removal of micropollutants in treatment wetlands . 46 4.9.4 The resilience of treatment wetlands to the effects of micropollutants . 47 4.9.5 Summary . 47 4.10 Landfill Leachate Treatment . 48 4.10.1 Introduction . 48 4.10.2 Design objectives . 48 4.10.3 Processes required and TW type to be used . 49 4.10.4 Specific considerations during design and construction . 50 4.11 Industrial Wastewater Treatment . 54 4.11.1 General considerations . 54 4.11.2 Mine drainage . ..
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