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Application: Treatment Wetlands

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This chapter describes the implementation of a 2D steady-state reactive transport model (RTM) of a treatment wetland. Treatment wetlands are technologies used for handling wastewater and other contaminated types of water.

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Boog, J. (2018). Application: Treatment Wetlands. In: OpenGeoSys Tutorial. SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67153-6_7

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