Definitions for "Constructed Wetland"
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Man-made wetland (CW).
a human-made marsh area
an artificial marsh or swamp, created for human use, such as wastewater or sewage
a sewage treatment facility based on natural processes that will extract pathogens and nutrients from the sewage and prevent these from reaching the ground water table and contaminating the coastal bays
a water treatment facility that has gained importance in recent years for treatment of lakes
An aquatic treatment system consisting of one or more lined or unlined basins, some or all of which may be filled with a treatment medium and wastewater undergoing some combination of physical, chemical, and/or biological treatment and evaporation and evapotranspiration by means of macrophytes planted in the treatment medium.
Conversion of an area into a wetland by building dikes, small dams and/or shaping land to provide an appropriate water regime for hydrophytic vegetation.
A constructed wetland system is seen as a tertiary level of stormwater treatment designed to retain fine sediments and nutrients. It commonly has two components; a relatively deep upstream pond for trapping settleable solids and a wetland consisting of a shallow pond containing extensive macrophyte vegetation designed to remove fine settleable solids and nutrients.
is a human-made habitat for waterfowl and other life, often using greywater or rainwater catchment overflow.