Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Main Benefits of Reed Bed Water Treatment Systems

By Tom Jones


Reed beds are natural habitats found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions and estuaries are a biologically proven, eco friendly way of treating wastewater, and have the added virtue of often been more effective than mechanical wastewater treatment systems.

A much more easy definition of a reed bed is if you have filthy water in your pond or water which is heavily polluted, Reed Beds will be planted to make the water clean again. This is good for ecology and living organisms and fish in the water.

Reed Beds have a large range of qualities and are suitable for cleaning everything from secondary to tertiary treatment of mild domestic effluent, to rural waste and even heavy commercial contaminants.

The reason why they're so effective is often because within the bed's root sector, natural biological, physical and chemical processes interact with one another to degrade or remove a good range of pollutants. Artificial reed beds are utilized as a technique of removing contaminants from grey water.

There are several types of reed beds and grasses such as:

Reed sweet-grass, canary reed-grass, small-reed, huge sedges, yellow flag iris, reed-mace, water-plantains and flowering rush. These all have a selection of uses.

Uses of reed beds

Reed Beds may be employed as 'Constructed wetlands ' which are artificial swamps (a. K. A reed fields) using reed or other marshland plants to form part of small-scale sewage treatment systems. Micro-organisms living on the root system clean the water when it trickles through the reed bed.

Reed Beds may also be used as 'Treatment pools ' which are small versions of built wetlands which uses reed beds or other marshland plants to form an even smaller water cleansing system. Like assembled wetlands, Microbes living on the root system and in the litter clean the water when it trickles through the reed bed

Because of the size of Treatment ponds, they are utilized for the water treatment of a single house or a tiny locality.




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