1st Edition

Treatment Marshes for Runoff and Polishing

By Robert H. Kadlec Copyright 2020
1056 Pages 300 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

1056 Pages 300 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Treatment Marshes for Runoff and Polishing represents the most comprehensive and up-date-date resource for the design, construction, and operation of marsh treatment systems. This new edition represents a complete rewrite of the surface flow sections of previous editions of Treatment Wetlands. It is based on the performance hundreds of treatment marshes over the past 40 years. Treatment... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Hydrology

Chapter 3 Surface Water Movement

Chapter 4 The Marsh Underground

Chapter 5 Microbial and Plant Communities

Chapter 6 Energy Flows and Temperature

Chapter 7 Representing Treatment Performance

Chapter 8 Suspended Solids

Chapter 9 Nitrogen

Chapter 10 Phosphorus

Chapter 11 Event-Driven Systems

Chapter 12 Ancillary Substances

Chapter 13 Trace Metals

Chapter 14 Trace Organics

Chapter 15 Ecological Perspective

Chapter 16 Footprints and Performance

Chapter 17 Interior Design and Construction

Chapter 18 Management, Operations, and Maintenance

Chapter 19 Economics

Biography

Dr. Robert H. Kadlec earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan. Bob has worked on treatment wetlands in many states and several other countries. He has participated in the design of over 100 treatment wetlands. He is past chairman of the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on the Use of Macrophytes in Water Pollution Control. Dr. Kadlec has authored or coauthored over 150 publications on treatment wetlands, in addition to dozens of project reports. He was a proposer and developer of the U.S. EPA North American Treatment Wetland Database.