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Constructed Treatment Wetlands

Constructed Treatment Wetlands enhance water quality and provide an excellent approach for managing contaminated wastewater and stormwater issues. Cardno ENTRIX is known for its specialized capabilities in designing and managing Constructed Treatment Wetlands to remove targeted constituents from stormwater, groundwater, and municipal or industrial wastewaters. The Cardno ENTRIX approach to Constructed Treatment Wetland design is based on the integration of vegetation, soil, and hydraulic characteristics that combine to remove site-specific constituents from wastewater. 

Cardno ENTRIX has extensive experience with all facets of the design, permitting, implementation and monitoring of Constructed Treatment Wetlands and the associated water quality issues and environmental liabilities associated with these projects.  Water quality issues related to wastewater and stormwater can involve a variety of interrelated technical concerns with multiple chemical contaminants and nutrients. The firm’s strength in Constructed Treatment Wetland solutions helps clients meet increasingly restrictive wastewater discharge requirements, while managing and addressing water quality issues and decreasing their environmental liabilities in a cost-effective manner.  Working for both private sector and government clients, Cardno ENTRIX has demonstrated that Constructed Treatment Wetlands can be cost effective, environmentally sustainable, and acceptable by the regulatory community.

Related Services: Project Examples:
  • Water Quality Assessment and Characterization
  • Conceptual Design and Feasibility Analysis
  • Pilot-scale Effluent Treatability and Verification Study
  • Preliminary Design and Cost Estimate
  • Final Design and Engineering Oversight During Construction
  • Long-term Operating Services and Monitoring
  • Environmental Permit Negotiations