Assessing the risk of utilizing tidal coastal wetlands for wastewater management.

ABSTRACT: Coastal tidal wetlands are well recognized for the key ecosystem services they provide such as flood protection, water quality improvement, and carbon sequestration. In the southeastern United States, some communities rely on coastal wetlands for the management of secondarily treated effluents in forested and emergent wetlands. Advocates for this practice have argued that wetlands can assimilate nitrogen from wastewater, which can improve cypress-tupelo swamp productivity, and enhance marsh accretion rates to mitigate the effects of sea level rise. In contrast, evolving research on coastal wetlands and the environmental impacts of wastewater treatment pose new questions about the potential risks introduced by this practice. This review seeks to: (1) assess current research on plant product

SUBMITTER: Shifflett SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341721 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature