Talk:Treatment pond

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--Alex 08:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rooftop water-purifying ponds

Rooftop water purifying ponds are also being implemented unto rooftops. These forms of green roofs can be build from a substrate (as being done in Dongtan [1]) or from plant-based ponds (as being done by WaterWorks UK Grow System [2]

[edit] Copyedit changes

Hi. I made several dozen standard copyedit changes. As a professional editor, I thought it might be worthwhile to explain to the folks working on this article what most of the changes were:

  • Misspellings were corrected. In particular, there were several situations where two words were merged into a compound word that does not exist in American or British English.
  • Incorrect grammar was corrected.
  • Redundant words such as "also", "finally" and "zone" were removed.
  • Elipses (dots) were removed. None were needed in this article.

There were some situations where I wasn't sure of the meaning, and I left those unchanged, even if they did not look correct.

Of the many aspects of this article which might be expanded in an interesting way, I find the use of fish in this process surprising.

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 10:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ideas for more content

After thinking about the topic and the article, I started coming up with questions.

  • What are the range of costs to build? How much for upkeep? Are we talking hundreds or millions, here?
  • Are these ponds built by professionals, or just using commercial supplies?
  • What are the alternatives? I can understand that sewage cannot be dumped in urban areas, but why not in farming country? Aren't these animal byproducts fertilizer?
  • Is any part of construction and use subject to building codes or official review?
  • What, exactly, does the "cleaning"? Plants? Bacteria? Fish?
  • Is it correct that the purpose is to only to remove anaerobic bacteria?
  • What value do the treatment ponds have, when used in conjunction with septic tanks in urban areas?
  • Why is it necessary to have three "levels" of fish? For four "zones"? Aren't there fish that swim to all depths?
  • What does a "complete ecosystem" mean? Isn't the idea for the ponds to act as a part of a larger ecosystem?
  • The reference for "Water Works" leads to an interesting page. The stated goals there are to create "green water" (a concept that is not covered in Wiki, btw, but might well be). Is creating "green water" always the goal of these ponds?
  • In terms of avoiding advertising, it might be good to include a link that the Water Works site does, to an industry association: www.greenroofs.org
  • Particularly in regard to the roof versions, are these meant to be economical (as the other treatment ponds appear to intend), or is this intended partly as an "ecological proof of concept", rather like putting solar panels on roofs?
  • And this is just one related to my personal situation: Are treatment ponds practical in areas where there's limited year-round water availability?

Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 04:14, 24 March 2008 (UTC)