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Woodcliff Lake now has four new floating wetland islands to eliminate algae in one of Veolia North America's reservoirs along ...
Stuffed with native plants, the floating wetlands are beautiful. But their roots may help keep RI's lakes open by stopping blue-green algae.
Artificial floating structures that mimic natural wetlands ecosystems provide community education and can be designed to address a range of problems, including water quality issues, harmful algal ...
The floating wetland, the first of its kind, set off from the north shore of the lake Monday morning and was pulled by a boat to the middle of a cove east of the marina, ...
The floating wetland was installed June 2020 by researchers from Northeastern University and the Charles River Conservancy who envision a swimmable river. After a year, researchers are seeing ...
Called floating treatment wetland systems (FTWS), these are 4-foot by 6-foot buoyant platforms topped with plants. When their roots are submerged in contaminated water, the plants suck pollutants ...
The floating wetland includes cameras to allow for remote monitoring. This Fellows Lake approach is actually cheaper per square foot than the "biohavens" found in Doling and Sequiota that contain ...
Thanks to a donation from SSOE Group, six new floating wetlands were installed on the downtown Toledo side of the Glass City ...
The idea for the project took shape back in 2014. Wesley, along with Urban Rivers cofounders Zach Damato and Josh Yellin, had been interested in proving the potential of floating wetlands as a way ...
Elena Johannsen, of Shedd Aquarium, far left, uses a pole to guide a floating wetland into place as she and groups of community volunteers prepare floating wetlands along the South Branch of the ...
Floating wetlands are being tried all around the world as a way to clean up impaired bodies of water by using natural processes. In the United States, there are experiments underway in Chicago, ...
An artificial floating wetland constructed without plastic launched Monday onto Fellows Lake aims to return lost native species to the ecosystem.