Letting nature manage farmyard water

Nature Wetlands, both natural and constructed have a fantastic ability to cleanse water through physical, chemical and biological processes. The projects are using plants and trees, like willow, miscanthus, comfrey and nettles, which have a proven ability to cleanse dirty water. The approach when designing the water treatment systems is based on harnessing the Ecosystems already present ability to uptake nutrients and contaminants. The system has been designed to give nature the best possible chance by maximising the retention time of water in the swales by, creating a very slight fall, using check dams and maximising vegetative cover throughout the swales.