Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds: Designing, Building and Planting Your Treatment Wetland System

The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is a comprehensive guide to reed bed systems and treatment wetlands for household effluent treatment. It covers system selection, design, construction, planting, and maintenance, and provides insight into permaculture as a design tool. The book is an invaluable resource for homeowners and professionals interested in building their own reed bed system.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 09 February 2018
Publisher: Permanent Publications

The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of reed bed systems and treatment wetlands, offering a comprehensive guide for household effluent treatment. Spanning from system selection and design to construction, planting, and maintenance, this guide provides readers with a step-by-step manual to establish their own reed bed system. Reed beds are highly efficient, effective, and low-energy filter systems that play a crucial role in protecting local groundwater and streams from septic tank effluent and greywater. This thorough book delves into the background of wastewater treatment and water quality, elucidating how reed beds work to cleanse wastewater and restore its purity.

Reed beds and treatment wetlands are well-established components within permaculture design, and this guide takes it a step further by providing a deeper understanding of permaculture as a design tool. It explores how to maximize the yields, beneficial relationships, and sustainability of reed beds and the entire sewage treatment process within a site. Additionally, the guide offers an overview of planning guidelines for the UK and Ireland, making it an invaluable resource for homeowners who wish to build their own system. With its easy-to-follow and clearly structured format, accompanied by beautiful line drawings to illustrate the text, The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is not only useful but also inspiring for permaculture designers, architects, engineers, landscape designers, planners, and anyone with an interest in this field.

Weight: 340g
Dimension: 169 x 240 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781856233125