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Peter Nichols, Terry Lucke, Darren Drapper and Chris Walker
Floating Treatment Wetland (FTW) systems are purpose-built devices designed to replicate the water treatment processes that occur in and around naturally occurring floating vegetated islands. FTWs can be used to improve the water quality of water storage...
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Peter Nichols, Terry Lucke, Darren Drapper, Chris Walker
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Floating Treatment Wetland (FTW) systems are purpose-built devices designed to replicate the water treatment processes that occur in and around naturally occurring floating vegetated islands. FTWs can be used to improve the water quality of water storage...
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Jiro Kogi, Mariko Miyamoto, Jay Bolthouse and Makoto Yokohari
Similar to other Asian nations, suburban areas in Japan are characterized by dense intermixtures of residential areas and farmlands. These hybrid rural/urban areas are evaluated negatively in modern planning frameworks. However, mixed rural/urban landsca...
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Deonie Allen, Valerie Olive, Scott Arthur and Heather Haynes
Vegetated swales are an accepted and commonly implemented sustainable urban drainage system in the built urban environment. Laboratory and field research has defined the effectiveness of a vegetated swale in sediment detention during a single rainfall-ru...
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Caitlin Cunningham and Mohammad Gharipour
Wastewater treatment systems in urban areas of the United States have reached a critical replacement age. From century-old, deteriorating systems raw sewage overflows into basements, streets and surface waters. In economically depressed cities, sewage ov...
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Caitlin Cunningham and Mohammad Gharipour
Wastewater treatment systems in urban areas of the United States have reached a critical replacement age. From century-old, deteriorating systems raw sewage overflows into basements, streets and surface waters. In economically depressed cities, sewage ov...
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Domenica Mirauda and Marco Ostoich
The present study develops an integrated methodology combining the results of the water-quality classification, according to the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC?WFD, with those of a mathematical integrity model. It is able to analyse the potential a...
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Domenica Mirauda and Marco Ostoich
The present study develops an integrated methodology combining the results of the water-quality classification, according to the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC?WFD, with those of a mathematical integrity model. It is able to analyse the potential a...
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Amira Oun, Arun Kumar, Timothy Harrigan, Andreas Angelakis and Irene Xagoraraki
Most of the waterborne disease outbreaks observed in North America are associated with rural drinking water systems. The majority of the reported waterborne outbreaks are related to microbial agents (parasites, bacteria and viruses). Rural areas are char...
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Hong Gao, Yuebo Xie, Sarfraz Hashim, Alamgir Akhtar Khan, Xiaolin Wang and Huiyong Xu
Contrary to the constraints in time, investment, and management of the traditional technology for waste water treatment, this paper seeks to propose a more advanced, reliable, and affordable new technology to restore urban polluted rivers to pristine qua...
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Yuhua Zhou, Jing Lei, Yu Zhang, Jing Zhu, Yanna Lu, Xuefang Wu and Hao Fang
Industrial wastewater and sewage are both important sources of heavy metals and metalloids in urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). China has made great efforts to control heavy metal and metalloid pollution by setting discharge limits for WWTPs. Th...
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Shang-Shu Shih, Shang-Shang Hong and Tsang-Jung Chang
Constructed ponds and wetlands are widely used in urban areas for stormwater management, ecological conservation, and pollution treatment. The treatment efficiency of these systems is strongly related to the hydrodynamics and hydraulic residence time. In...
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Shang-Shu Shih, Shang-Shang Hong, Tsang-Jung Chang
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Constructed ponds and wetlands are widely used in urban areas for stormwater management, ecological conservation, and pollution treatment. The treatment efficiency of these systems is strongly related to the hydrodynamics and hydraulic residence time. In...
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Chi-Feng Chen, Ming-Yang Sheng, Chia-Ling Chang, Shyh-Fang Kang and Jen-Yang Lin
Low impact development (LID) is a relatively new concept in land use management that aims to maintain hydrological conditions at a predevelopment level without deteriorating water quality during land development. The United States Environmental Protectio...
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Wellington Lucas Tondo, Flavio Gurgacz, Reginaldo Ferreira Santos, Ivan Werncke, Felipe Fernandes Klajn, Anderson Miguel Lenz
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Frying oil is one of the major environmental problems in urban centers, causing blockage of sewer pipes and pollution of rivers. Producing biodiesel with frying oil is an alternative to reduce the environmental impacts generated in the undue discar...
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Wellington Lucas Tondo, Flavio Gurgacz, Reginaldo Ferreira Santos, Ivan Werncke, Felipe Fernandes Klajn, Anderson Miguel Lenz (Author)
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Frying oil is one of the major environmental problems in urban centers, causing blockage of sewer pipes and pollution of rivers. Producing biodiesel with frying oil is an alternative to reduce the environmental impacts generated in the undue discar...
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Terry Lucke, Mohamed Ansaf Kachchu Mohamed and Neil Tindale
Four different field swales were tested in this study, using 24 standardised synthetic runoff simulation experiments to evaluate their performance in removing Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Total Nitrogen (TN) and Total Phosphorous (TP) from stormwater ru...
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Marta Eliane Echeverria Borges, Carlos Barros Júnior
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The physic-chemical characteristics of leach deposited in the landfill waste pond and of water from the Borba Gato streamlet are evaluated. Twenty-six physic-chemical parameters were analyzed from three collection sites, or rather, two in the streamlet, ...
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Yali Li, Hongjuan Zhang, Mengzhu Liu and Hongwei Pei
Reclamation of treated sewage is an important way to alleviate urban water scarcity and optimize ecological layout, especially in irrigating urban turfgrass. Nevertheless, the irrational use of reclaimed sewage could result in risk of excessive nitrogen ...
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Rehab O. Abdel Rahman, Ahmed M. El-Kamash and Yung-Tse Hung
Permeable concrete is a class of materials that has long been tested and implemented to control water pollution. Its application in low-impact development practices has proved its efficiency in mitigating some of the impacts of urbanization on the enviro...
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