Willsboro Constructed Wetland Demonstration Project

Boquet River Association (2015). Willsboro Constructed Wetland Demonstration Project. Grand Isle, VT: Lake Champlain Basin Program.

The goal of this project was to document and demonstrate the effectiveness of an economical approach to the tertiary treatment of effluent from the Town of Willsboro’s Sewage Treatment Plant utilizing wollastonite tailings (a locally-produced mining waste) as the substrate in a constructed wetland. The constructed wetland in Willsboro resulted from a
1999 LCBP-funded study, “Cost-Effective Phosphorus Removal from  Secondary Wastewater Effluent through Mineral Adsorption,” Project No.: LC-DP94-NYRFP-D-0070-058, and is part of a long-term Town of Willsboro series of projects to upgrade wastewater treatment, stabilize
black ash streambanks eroding into the Boquet River, create a recreation/historical trail and productively utilize an abandoned brownfield. The objective of this monitoring project was to document the effectiveness of the system so the constructed wetland cells could be expanded to treat the entire hamlet’s treated effluent. Note: data are included in report.