San Antonio, TX is expanding a one-acre wetland pilot project to filter lake sewage across 100 acres
San Antonio, TX wetland pilot project lake sewage filter
The city of San Antonio launched a one-acre wetland pilot project to filter sewage stored in Mitchell Lake. The test wetland allowed the city to experiment with how much water the wetlands could effectively treat before becoming oversaturated: between 2 to 7 million gallons per day. After 18 months of success, the city is proposing the pilot project be scaled up to cover 100 acres.
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SAWS deems Mitchell Lake wetlands pilot a success
SAWS staff have deemed a pilot wetlands project successful and are readying to implement the strategy across Mitchell Lake's southern banks.
Coastal News Today | TX - ‘A green solution to a green problem’: Manmade wetlands get green light at Mitchell Lake
When Gregg Eckhardt pitched the idea of cleaning up the banks of Mitchell Lake with manmade wetlands more than two-and-a-half decades ago, he wasn’t sure he’d ever see the project actually take off.
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