Decentralized, environmentally friendly wastewater treatment is necessary to reduce the burden on receiving water bodies, and to reuse rather than dispose of the water. In this project, an indoor-constructed wetland was designed to treat the wastewater from WPI's Campus Center, at an average flowrate of 6,100 GPD. Stacked aquatic treatment tanks were used to minimize the footprint and to allow cascading aeration between tanks. A subsurface-flow wetland was designed for denitrification before UV disinfection and discharge into a leach field.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Lee, Adam Bierly
• Reynolds, Christin T.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D150M

Advisor

• Fitzpatrick, Malcolm S.
• Bergendahl, John Andrew

Year

• 2004

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Civil Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright