A Study on Integrated Waste Water Treatment in Wetland Construction using Typha Latiofolia at Dmice

Cynthia Susan George¹, B Pavithra², M D Nithyashree³

^1,2,3UG Student, Department of Civil Engineering, DMI College of Engineering, Chennai, India.

Abstract

Water has increasingly become a scarce essential commodity and should be used judiciously. Tamilnadu is having a severe drought and the whole country is having problems in meeting the demands of clean accessible water. Therefore, the only pragmatic approach to combat this situation of drought is water treatment. A constructed wetland is an artificial wetland that are engineered systems that use natural functions vegetation, soil, and organisms to treat wastewater and act as a biofilter to remove a range of pollutants (such as organic matter, nutrients, pathogens, heavy metals) from the water. This root zone waste water treatment system makes use of biological and physical-treatment processes to remove pollutants from wastewater Constructed wetlands is a natural alternative to the commonly used technical methods of wastewater treatment. A horizontal surface flow constructed wetland (HSF) has been designed to study the removal of nutrients and trace elements by treating urban sewage and passing through selected aquatic plants / aquatic macrophytes i.e., Typha latifolia,. Samples collected from inlet and outlet of the constructed wetland were analyzed for trace elements and physio-chemical characteristics This study is conducted to prove that Constructed wetlands are suitable eco-technology for remediation of urban wastes containing trace elements and high nutrients, before entering Rivers and other water bodies as well as for reusing.

Keywords

• Constructed Wetland, Vetiver, Typha Latifolia, Domestic wastewater, Filtration, Multimedia Filter

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Cynthia Susan George, B Pavithra, M D Nithyashree. A Study on Integrated Waste Water Treatment in Wetland Construction using Typha Latiofolia at Dmice. International Conference on Global Environmental Changes and Sustainable Development (2019): 61. Print.