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Special Collection on Onsite and Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems
Guest Editors:
Sarina J. Ergas, PhD, PE, BCEE, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida
Jose Amador, PhD, Professor, Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island
Treavor Boyer, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
Eran Friedler, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
While sewerage systems are anticipated to expand over the next decades, it remains cost-prohibitive to connect many rural and suburban areas to centralized treatment facilities. Major benefits of onsite and decentralized wastewater systems include greater opportunities for groundwater recharge and recovery of water, energy and nutrients close to their source of generation. However, benefits of onsite and decentralized systems must be balanced against risks to public health and water quality. An understanding of the impacts of climate change on these systems is needed to plan for greater infrastructure resilience. This special collection provides a selection of studies addressing global, environmental and water resource issues associated with onsite and decentralized wastewater management. Additional papers for this special collection will be added as they are accepted and published online. Readers are encouraged to check the online collection page frequently to find additional content.
Papers in this Collection
Onsite and Decentralized Wastewater Management Systems
Sarina J. Ergas, M.ASCE; Jose Amador; Treavor Boyer; and Eran Friedler
Published online: April 29, 2021
Land-Based Wastewater Treatment System Modeling Using HYDRUS CW2D to Simulate the Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Soil Contaminants
Younsuk Dong; Steven I. Safferman, M.ASCE; and A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi
Published online: September 10, 2019
Nitrogen Treatment in Soil Beneath High-Flow and Low-Flow Onsite Wastewater Systems
Charles P. Humphrey Jr., Ph.D.; Guy Iverson; William J. Underwood; Samuel S. Cary; Caitlin Skibiel; and Mike O’Driscoll, Ph.D.
Published online: September 10, 2019
Preliminary Evidence That Rising Groundwater Tables Threaten Coastal Septic Systems
Alissa H. Cox; George W. Loomis; and José A. Amador
Published online: September 16, 2019
Decentralized Water Reuse: Implementing and Regulating Onsite Nonpotable Water Systems
Katy Lackey; Suzanne Sharkey; Sybil Sharvelle, Ph.D., M.ASCE; Paula Kehoe; and Taylor Chang
Published online: October 23, 2019
Performance Characterization of a Steam Distillation Process for Ammonium Recovery from Urine
Jessica M. Hazard; Heather N. Bischel, Ph.D.; and Harold L. Leverenz, Ph.D., P.E.
Published online: November 23, 2019
A Pilot-Scale Hybrid Adsorption–Biological Treatment System for Nitrogen Removal in Onsite Wastewater Treatment
Laura Rodriguez-Gonzalez; Amulya Miriyala; Madison Rice; Daniel Delgado; Justine Marshall; Michelle Henderson; Kebreab Ghebremichael; James R. Mihelcic; and Sarina J. Ergas, M.ASCE
Published online: December 08, 2019
Integrated Decentralized Treatment for Improved N and K Recovery from Urine
Neha Jagtap, Ph.D.; and Treavor H. Boyer, Ph.D.
Published online: December 23, 2019
Dynamic Influent Generator for Alternative Wastewater Management with Urine Source Separation
Ana Barbara Bisinella de Faria, Ph.D.; Mathilde Besson; Aras Ahmadi; Kai M. Udert, Ph.D.; and Mathieu Spérandio
Published online: January 11, 2020
Biogeochemical Sequestration of Phosphorus in a Two-Layer Lignocellulose-Based Soil Treatment System
Laura M. Wehrmann, D.Sc.; Jeanette A. Lee; Roy E. Price, Ph.D.; George Heufelder; Harold W. Walker, Ph.D., M.ASCE; and Christopher J. Gobler, Ph.D.
Published online: January 13, 2020
Temporal Lags in Post-Rain Greenhouse Gas Cycling and Fluxes from Septic Leach Field Soils and Associated Greenhouse Gas Cycling Microbial Populations
Cristina P. Fernández-Baca, Ph.D.; Amir-Eldin Omar; Matthew C. Reid, Ph.D.; and Ruth E. Richardson, Ph.D.
Published online: February 11, 2020
Hydrobiogeochemical Function of Soil Based Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems: Insights from High-Resolution O2 Imaging
Molly Graffam; Lubos Polerecky; and Nils Volkenborn
Published online: February 12, 2020
Resilience of On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems after Extreme Storm Event
Laura E. Kohler, Ph.D.; JoAnn Silverstein, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and Balaji Rajagopalan, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Published online: February 20, 2020
Nitrogen Transformations and Microbial Characterization of Soils from Passive Nitrogen Removing Biofilters
Stuart Waugh, Ph.D.; Xinwei Mao, Ph.D.; George Heufelder; Harold Walker, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; and Christopher J. Gobler, Ph.D.
Published online: February 28, 2020
Microbial Communities in Partially and Fully Treated Effluent of Three Nitrogen-Removing Biofilters
Kylie Langlois; Christopher J. Gobler, Ph.D.; Harold W. Walker, Ph.D., P.E.; and Jackie L. Collier, Ph.D.
Published online: March 04, 2020