| Autor: |
Gu B; Ecological Technologies Department, South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach 33406, USA., DeBusk TA, Dierberg FE, Chimney MJ, Pietro KC, Aziz T |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research [Water Sci Technol] 2001; Vol. 44 (11-12), pp. 101-8. |
| Abstrakt: |
The 1994 Everglades Forever Act mandates the South Florida Water Management District and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate a series of advanced treatment technologies to reduce total phosphorus (TP) in Everglades Agricultural Area runoff to a threshold target level. A submerged aquatic vegetation/limerock (SAV/LR) treatment system is one of the technologies selected for evaluation. The research program consists of two phases. Phase I examined the efficiency of SAV/LR treatment system for TP removal at the mesocosm scale. Preliminary results demonstrate that this technology is capable of reducing effluent TP to as low as 10 microg/L under constant flows. The SAV component removes the majority of the influent soluble reactive P, while the limerock component removes a portion of the particulate P. Phase II is a multi-scale project (i.e., microcosms, mesocosms, test cells and full-size wetlands). Experiments and field investigations using various environmental scenarios are designed to (1) identify key P removal processes; (2) provide management and operational criteria for basin-scale implementation; and (3) provide scientific data for a standardized comparison of performance among advanced treatment technologies. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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