Comments on: Cattail Army Deployed to Fight Water Pollution

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[…] The utility’s operations include 50 acres of constructed wetlands that provide a level of natural wastewater treatment, and in an interesting twist the country club grounds will provide yet another layer of […]

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Got Milk? Lactate Helps Clean Polluted Soil : CleanTechnica — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:51:24 +0000

[…] are broken down by natural processes involving bacteria or pollution-sucking plants such as cattails or even sugar beets. In contrast, dig-and-dump simply shifts contaminants from one place to […]

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Altus Air Force Base is Flying High on New Green Award : CleanTechnica — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:39 +0000

[…] Instead, green remediation keeps the contaminated soil and/or groundwater in place, using cattails and other plants, natural biological reactions, alternative energy, and other sustainable […]

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Hi-Tech Steam Lays the Green Clean on Visalia Superfund Site : CleanTechnica — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:21:30 +0000

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By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:15 +0000

When you process ethanol from cat tails you render the contaminates haremless.The more escue you put on them the larger they grow and the sugar content increases.There is no one solution for these problems but we are working on it..

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:00 +0000

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:00 +0000

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:00 +0000

By: DaiLaughing

DaiLaughing — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:14:44 +0000

They tried this locally to me. A disused tin mine flooded and with tin comes arsenic. They trialled planting cattails in an artificial marshland rather than filtering or other treatment. They worked out they would need a ridiculous area of land to make any real difference and have just fill the whole area in.

On the whole (and not to repeat the points already made) an article which is well behind the times and lacking in any real understanding of the subject. Thumbs down.

By: DaiLaughing

DaiLaughing — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:14:00 +0000

On the whole (and not to repeat the points already made) an article which is well behind the times and lacking in any real understanding of the subject. Thumbs down.

By: Wetlandman

Wetlandman — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:08:36 +0000

What is hardly amusing is that these plants which are considered an invasive species dominating large areas of Florida and being controlled with chemicals at exorbitant cost to taxpayers are now being promulgated and used to treat wastewater from agriculture runoff (mainly sugar which is subsidized by the government). Remove the head of the snake and stop subsidizing large scale polluters with tax breaks and again subsidizing them by spending taxpayers money to clean up their mistakes.

By: Wetlandman

Wetlandman — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:08:00 +0000

By: Wetlandman

Wetlandman — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:08:00 +0000

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:17 +0000

Finding such solutions that work in a symbiotic way is key to maintaining sustainable ecosystems. The worry is that using one element to counterbalance another will itself, at some point in the cycle cause its own imbalance. This sort of experimentation, backed by scientific results, may help us remedy the mess we’ve made of the planet.

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:00 +0000

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:00 +0000

By: Global Patriot

Global Patriot — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:00 +0000

By: Stephen Klaber

Stephen Klaber — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:22:15 +0000

I don’t know from personal experience, but the online literature says that phragmites is useful in phytoremediation. It has been used successfully in briquetting and charcoal and gas generation of two types (anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis), and probably works for ethanol, too. I do not know of any group that has successfully used it for food, but otherwise they are nearly equivalent resources. Yeah, we do want to control it, but like cattails they are best controlled as a resource.