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Design of Constructed Wetland Treatment Measures for Highway Runoff in a Water Source Protection Area

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  • Guoping Qian

    (National Engineering Laboratory for Highway Maintenance Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China)

  • Chang Wang

    (National Engineering Laboratory for Highway Maintenance Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China)

  • Xiangbing Gong

    (National Engineering Laboratory for Highway Maintenance Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China)

  • Hongyu Zhou

    (National Engineering Laboratory for Highway Maintenance Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China)

  • Jun Cai

    (National Engineering Laboratory for Highway Maintenance Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China)

Abstract

Road runoff contains high levels of pollutants, such as heavy metals and hydrocarbons. If they are directly discharged into sensitive water bodies, they will cause irreversible pollution and damage to the water environment. Furthermore, the leakage of hazardous chemicals into sensitive waters will lead to serious consequences, so determining how to deal with road surface runoff has become an urgent problem. This research adopts a scheme for collecting and processing road runoff in a water source protection area using artificial wetlands. After optimizing and improving the general vertical flow of the wetland structure, a composite wetland structure and a relatively novel tandem wetland structure are proposed. An indoor model is established for experiments on various main wetland structure schemes. The results show that the two newly proposed wetland structures improve the possibility of water level control in general vertical flow structures. At the same time, the movement distance of the water flow in the wetland structure is changed to improve the treatment effect of runoff. The removal effect of composite and tandem wetland structures for heavy metals, petroleum substances, and COD (chemical oxygen demand) is significantly better than that of general vertical flow structures. Among them, the composite structure is better than the tandem structure at removing heavy metals, petroleum substances, and COD. However, due to the water discharge method of the structures, the latter has a better effect than the former in the treatment of suspended substances.

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  • Guoping Qian & Chang Wang & Xiangbing Gong & Hongyu Zhou & Jun Cai, 2022. "Design of Constructed Wetland Treatment Measures for Highway Runoff in a Water Source Protection Area," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-12, May.
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