Organisation
National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
Fact sheet
Nutrient removal from rural drainage systems using wetlands: investigating improvement to irrigation drainage systems
This fact sheet briefly describes a National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) project in the Goulburn-Broken catchment, Vic, to investigate the potential of reducing nutrients in irrigation drainage systems using in-line wetland technology and batter stabilisation. Two aspects of reducing nutrients were investigated: the use of aquatic plants to remove nutrients, and stabilising the drain...