Stormwater Treatment Areas
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This animation shows the function of stormwater treatment areas in the Everglades. © Karst Productions
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Narrator: Water leaving the everglades agricultural area passes through a pump station into a series of treatment cells that are filled with vegetation that can take up phosphorous. Nutrient rich water passes through emergent vegetation like cattails. Then submerged aquatics and finally rich blankets of periphyton. These plants take their turn further cleansing the water and dropping phosphorus levels by about eighty percent. From there clean water heads south entering the natural wetland of the everglades.
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