Seefood processing plant where the wastewater from cleaning fish and shellfish is treated in a VF wetland planted with papyrus.
The effluent is reused after ozonisation in the plant.
Teeside: A 1000 m2, 3 stage passive vertical flow reed bed system, treating run off from an international airport fire fighting training facility.
Bobbingworth: A 560m2, surface flow reed bed treating 30m3/d of iron loaded landfill leachate
Peterborough: A 2,570m2 Horizontal sub-surface flow reed bed treating hydrocarbon loaded run-ff with peak flows of 1,420 m3/day.
Aldbrough: A 210 m2, vertical flow bed, treating 14 m3/d of methanol loaded industrial effluent from a gas storage plant.
Mayfield: A 2.1 hectare, 12 bed aerated horizontal system treating airport run off contaminated with glycol based antifreeze.
Dufftown: An 800m2 surface flow reed bed, treating 650 m3/d of copper contaminated effluent from three distilleries.
Two constructed wetlands at Warsco Genk treat the run-off from 1 ha pavement and the cleaning water from a washing street for temporary units.
"Zero Emission" would be the general goal for sustainability. Especially for industrial production. Tertiary treatment with constructed wetlands may be a proper solution for closing the loop. The new treatment wetland at Changshu Advanced Materials Industrial Park, Haiyu Town, Jiangsu Province, China, is not only reclaiming water. It is a stepping stone for humans searching nature and for endangered species within a widely industrialized zone. Designed as a beautiful park it provides recreational functions and serves as buffer stripe between chemical industries and urban areas.
The wetland visitor center with its terraces on the roof and near the water level reveals a stunning new perspective. Intersted visitors will be given looks inside of the wetland when entering the exhibition on the first floor. Accomplished with a water laboratory and wetland control room the Changshu AMIP wetland center is a perfect place for training and dissemination of environmental solutions.
Aerated wetland 1,650 m² for treatment of fruit peeling company.
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Aerated wetland treating waste water from a small cheesery and dairy farm
This wetland was built for groundwater remediation on the site of a former oil refinery at the State University of New York's Wellsville campus 2008
