Fate and Behavior of Pollutants in a Vegetated Pond System for Road Runoff

• Published in: CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water
• Main Authors: Roinas, Georgios, Tsavdaris, Alexandros, Williams, John B., Mant, Catherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Pollution; Water Science and Technology; Environmental Chemistry; Pond Inlet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/clen.201300159; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fclen.201300159; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/clen.201300159

Road runoff contains a variety of contaminants that threaten aquatic systems. Pollutant mitigation is therefore an important function of sustainable drainage systems such as vegetated ponds. Vegetated ponds have a variety of treatment mechanisms that potentially can remove different pollutants. Howe...