Floating wetlands present a unique solution to the problem of algal blooms in the Ozarks. While increased rainfall is filling Ozarks rivers and lakes with nutrients that cause algal blooms, City ...

A new international study has endorsed artificial floating wetlands as a sustainable and cost-effective solution for improving water quality in rivers, lakes and wastewater systems. Led by scientists ...

Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) represent an innovative, nature‐based solution that utilises buoyant platforms to support emergent macrophytes, whose roots directly interact with the water column ...

An ongoing project to ensure the future of our drinking water and the wildlife that call our lakes home. Conservation, nature and utility workers in Springfield are launching another floating wetland ...

Isabelle Rowley and Dr. Mary Beth Koloszvary on Little's Lake. Siena University students have built a floating wetland as part of a project meant to improve the water quality of Little’s Lake.

Woodcliff Lake now has four new floating wetland islands to eliminate algae in one of Veolia North America's reservoirs along the Hackensack River. As large bass jumped out of the water around them, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3)—City Utilities of Springfield and the Missouri Department of Conservation launched two floating wetlands at Fellows Lake, north of Springfield, on Wednesday morning. According ...

Floating wetlands are engineered islands that hold plants and float on the water. The roots of these plants grow into the water and suck up the nutrients that would otherwise feed algae Algae blooms ...