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Phosphate Removal by Peat from Peat Mining Drainage Water during Overland Flow Wetland Treatment

North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Center, P.O. Box 124, FIN-90101 Oulu, Finland;
VTT, Technical Communities and Infrastructure, Water Eng. and Ecotechn., P.O. Box 19042, FIN-90101 Oulu, Finland;
Univ. of Helsinki, Dep. of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, P.O. Box 27, FIN-00014 Univ. of Helsinki, Finland.

^* Corresponding author (kaisa.heikkinen{at}vyh.fi).

ABSTRACT

Overland flow technique, which involves conducting wastewater across a natural mire, has during the recent years been widely used in Finland to decrease the loading of P and other elements from peat mining areas to the watercourses. In this study the applicability of laboratory tests in estimating the P retention by overland flow areas was assessed at a site in northern Finland. The ability of peat to retain PO₄-P was determined by adsorption isotherms, and the data were compared with the actual decreases in P loads obtained in the field. The PO₄-P retention curves obeyed rather well the conventional adsorption models, which suggests that sorption can be an important mechanism removing PO₄-P from the peat mining drainage water during overflow treatment. The Freundlich equation gave a better fit to the P sorption than did the one-surface Langmuir model. The constants describing the sorption characteristics of the peat showed spatial and temporal variation. They indicated, however, that the theoretical effective P sorption time for the overland flow area can be 20 to 25 yr. The ability of peat to retain P increased with increasing concentrations of oxalate extractable Fe and Al. Sorption reactions were found to be important in the annual decreases in PO₄-P from drainage waters in an overland flow area, but their efficiency in removing P from the peat mining drainage water appears to depend on hydrological conditions. In the first experimental year, the sorption calculated from the isotherm data amounted to 60% of the retention obtained in the field. Owing to the high flow conditions in the second year, the decrease in the loading of P in the field was decisively lower than estimated.

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