The hydrological sustainability of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment

Peter D. Hedges; Phil M. Fermor; Jiří Dušek

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8235-1_10

The hydrological sustainability of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment

Peter D. Hedges^*, Phil M. Fermor, Jiří Dušek

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Abstract

It is argued that there is a need for a hydrological assessment to be undertaken at the design stage of wetlands, which are to be constructed for wastewater treatment, in order to ensure their long-term sustainability. A simple water budget provides a suitable tool for this purpose. The product of an appropriate crop coefficient (Kc), and the reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) determined from meteorological data, is deemed a suitable procedure for determining the evapotranspiration component of the water budget. The UK and the Czech Republic are taken as case studies, representative of maritime and mid-continent climates, to illustrate a procedure for identifying regions where created wetlands are potentially at most risk from water deficits.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Wastewater Treatment, Plant Dynamics and Management in Constructed and Natural Wetlands
Publisher	Springer
Pages	111-120
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781402082344
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8235-1_10
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2008

Keywords

Crop coefficient
Hydrology
Municipal wastewater
Reed bed
Water budgets

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