Constructed wetland: Twin Oaks Community Foods

Glenrose Engineering is designing a constructed wetland to treat Twin Oaks Community Foods tofu production wastewater. Project elements include:

• characterizing wastewater nutrients and oxygen demand;
• terraced hillside construction to save energy by taking advantage of an opportunity for gravity flow;
• testing the relative effectiveness of alternative microbiotic communities; and
• a project to test methane production potential.