Water Environment Research Foundation

We want to call attention today to a new link we have posted in the right hand margin of our blog. The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) is a non-profit that is dedicated to researching water quality issues. The link is to a 2005 report on what they call "Nutrient Farming". These are basically constructed treatment wetlands and the report compares costs of conventional treatment with wetland removal costs. Among other things they find "savings of 51-63%" if you don't trade credits and up to 76-78% if you do. They considered very large and very small facilities, used EPA criteria, and based their numbers on an Illinois location. We thought we had posted this earlier.