Completed Competitive Grant

Constructed wetlands to reduce agricultural chemical transport to water resources

Project ID: 1995-48

Abstract

This project was part of a larger five-year, multi-phase research and demonstration effort to study water quality and agricultural drainage wells (ADWs). The goal was to evaluate the use of constructed wetlands for treatment of subsurface drainage prior to release to groundwater through ADWs and to develop design and operation criteria for these treatment wetlands.

Lead investigator: W.G. Crumpton, ISU Botany, et al

Year of grant completion: 1999

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Conservation practices, Water quality, quantity and management

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