WETLANDS ARTICLES

Floating Wetlands help boost nitrogen removal in lagoons

High nutrient loading and eutrophication of surface waters continue to be topics of great concern in the wastewater treatment community.

Wetlands work earns Nebraska high school students EPA award

Students from Niobrara High School in Niobrara, Neb., are being recognized with EPA Region 7's 2011 President's Environmental Youth Award for their work on a wetlands conservation project...

Artificial wetlands can provide long-term benefits, study finds

A unique study of created wetlands is providing insights into the environmental benefits they provide and how these have changed over 15 years...

Delaware wetlands continue to decline despite conservation efforts

A new report concludes that despite heightened public awareness of the importance of wetlands and stronger conservation efforts throughout the state to combat their loss, Delaware continues to surr...

New patent issue for constructed wetland system to treat CAFO wastewater

A method patent has been issued to Bernardin Lochmueller & Associates (BLA) for its Eco-Treatment™ constructed wetland system to treat wastewater from animal confinement operations...

Coastal wetland protection efforts in Delaware Bayshore awarded federal grant

A key coastal wetland property, part of the Thousand Acre Marsh near Port Penn, will be conserved thanks to a $829,400 federal grant awarded to DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife...

Federal grant to help protect Cape May wetlands

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has received a $1 million federal grant that will be used to protect ecologically sensitive wetlands parcels in Cape May County that provide ha...

Coastal wetlands restoration projects get $20M in grant funding

Grants totaling $20.5 million will support 24 projects in 13 states in conserving and restoring coastal wetlands and their fish and wildlife habitat...

WaterWorld Weekly Newscast: Nov. 10, 2011

Transcript of the Nov. 10, 2011 edition of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast.

Florida, feds announce major effort to restore River of Grass

Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District have announced a fast-track planning effort for the next generation of Everglades restoration...