Meeting the demands of Total Maximum Daily Loads for nutrients, bacteria and metals will require innovation and strategic planning in the next decade. Woodchip bioreactors to various types of biochar are being explored across varying scales to estimate pollutant reduction from agricultural row-crop fields to urban parking lot runoff.
This poster presents studies that use wood to treat water including column experiments occurring in the Duluth NRRI lab, lab flume testing, plot size testbeds, small ponds occurring in the Twin Cities, and a large bioreactor in Fairmont, MN. We describe the experiment design and testing methods and the coordination between the University of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Vadnais Lake Area Watershed Management Organization, City of Fairmont, Barr Engineering and SEH. Results of this work will be presented at future Water Resources Conferences.
Speaker(s)
Karina Cuate, Lucy DeBoer, Aaron Pietsch, Joe Magner, University of Minnesota; Bridget Ulrich, Allison Byrd, NRRI; Udai Singh, MWMO; Dawn Tanner, VLAWMO; Becca Vermace, Barr Engineering; Emily Jennings, SEH Inc.