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City of Columbia Wetland
Columbia, Missouri 65203 City of Columbia Wetland web site

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City of Columbia Wetland Cell #1
Coordinates: 38.8925192, -92.4479556 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

City of Columbia Wetland Cell #2
Coordinates: 38.8720742, -92.4363899 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

City of Columbia Wetland Cell #4
Coordinates: 38.9067638, -92.4324203 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

In response to Columbia's need to increase its wastewater treatment capacity and to protect the water quality of Perche Creek, the City of Columbia has upgraded the existing treatment facility and constructed a wetlands wastewater treatment system.

By 1987 Columbia's population had nearly outgrown the existing wastewater treatment facility. At that time the City proposed a conventional plan of expanding the existing treatment facility and constructing an effluent pipeline to the Missouri River. However, this plan did not satisfy the citizens of the community. Columbians cried out for a more natural approach. After additional engineering studies, Columbia adopted the idea of using constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.

Constructed wetlands clean wastewater in the same way that natural wetlands cleanse surface water of nutrients and organic debris. Both systems rely on natural biological processes.

Roots and stems of wetland vegetation provide a home for naturally occurring micro-organisms. Wastewater nutrients fertilize the wetland vegetation and organics provide a food source for the micro-organisms. Through this process, water leaving a wetland has been "treated" naturally.

Unlike naturally occurring wetlands, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment are constructed to control the flow of water through the wetland vegetation. Constructed wetlands are designed for a known amount of wastewater flow, and the size of the wetlands is based on the level of treatment needed to return the water to the environment without harmful effects. From City of Columbia Wetland web site

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