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Constructed Wetland Wastewater Facility

a caricature of a man dumping a bucket of water which flows to form a stream.  Everything that is done upstream affects everything downstream.

Water is 

a renewable resource

Why Round River?     Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was an Associate Director of the Forest Resources Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.  He founded the science of Game Management and served as a consulting forester.  But he is probably best known as a naturalist and conservationist through his writings.  His major contribution, A Sand County Almanac, was published a year after his death.  One essay in this book was titled "The Round River".  Below is an except from this essay.

"One of the marvels of early Wisconsin was the Round River, a river that flowed into itself, and thus sped around and around in a never-ending circuit.  Paul Bunyan discovered it, and the Bunyan saga tells how he floated many a log down its restless waters."  

Clay Hill's constructed wetland is a "round river".   Its headwaters are in the Joan White Howell Environmental Education Center and pavilion, its main stem is the wetland cells and its mouth is a 250 aquarium in the center.  Our "wastewater" is cleaned by plants and microorganisms that reside in the wetland cells. You can read more by following the links below. You may purchase a copy of the book A Sand County Almanac  by clicking on the title.  

Published 20 January 2005         Last modified  21 March 2018     © Clay Hill Memorial Forest

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