Rural Flush: Harnessing Multifunctional Constructed Wetlands to Play a Winning Hand in Blue River, OR.
| dc.contributor.author | Meyer, Ted | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-25T17:12:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-25T17:12:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06 | |
| dc.description | 144 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This project applies a new model for rural wastewater treatment in Blue River, an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon. Blue River’s destruction in the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire created both a legal imperative to modernize the community’s sanitation and an opportunity to rethink rural wastewater treatment. The model combines basic mechanical primary treatment with extensive secondary treatment by constructed wetlands. Replacing mechanical secondary treatment processes with constructed wetlands considerably reduces the operating costs of centralized sanitation, lowering a critical barrier to treating wastewater offsite in low-population areas of the United States. Constructed wetlands additionally restore threatened habitats and provide recreational opportunities, making them dynamic community assets. The efficacy of treatment wetlands have been widely demonstrated in research and practice worldwide, and are beginning to be adapted in the United States. Landscape architects are uniquely suited to act as ‘aesthetic ambassadors’ for this intervention, which can provide a sustainable and affordable model for rural wastewater treatment. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/29579 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon theses, Landscape Architecture Program, M.S.; | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | landscape architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Wastewater Treatment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Blue River, OR | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sanitation | en_US |
| dc.subject | clean water | en_US |
| dc.subject | wastewater | en_US |
| dc.title | Rural Flush: Harnessing Multifunctional Constructed Wetlands to Play a Winning Hand in Blue River, OR. | en_US |
| dc.type | Terminal Project | en_US |