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  • Title: Nitrogen and phosphorus removal from plant nursery runoff in vegetated and unvegetated subsurface flow wetlands.
    Author: Huett DO, Morris SG, Smith G, Hunt N.
    Journal: Water Res; 2005 Sep; 39(14):3259-72. PubMed ID: 16023175.
    Abstract:
    Subsurface horizontal flow reed beds are being evaluated for Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) removal from plant nursery runoff water in New South Wales Australia. The need to include plants (Phragmites australis), the effect of reaction time (3.5 v 7.0 d) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on N and P removal in batch fed gravel wetland tubs (55 L) was studied over 19 months. Simulated nursery runoff water containing N (10.1 mg L(-1), 74% as NO3) and P (0.58 mg L(-1), 88% as PO4) and DOC (2-5 mg L(-1)) was used. The planted wetland tubs removed >96% TN and TP over most of the 19-month study period while unplanted tubs were inefficient (<16% N and <45% P removal) and occasionally discharged nutrients. Doubling the reaction time to 7.0 days had no effect on nutrient removal. Plant nutrient uptake accounted for most of the N (76%) and P (86%) removed while roots and rhizomes were the dominant sink (N 58%, P 67%). The addition of methanol (C:N-3:1) to unplanted tubs achieved 81-98% N removal. In Carbon limited low nutrient nursery runoff, plants were essential to a gravel-based wetland to achieve efficient nutrient removal with effluent TN and TP concentrations of <1 mg L(-1) and 0.05 mg L(-1), respectively with a 3.5 day reaction time.
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