Double Duty

A 1,650-acre wetland gives the City of Orlando an effective resource for nutrient removal — and a popular attraction for nature observers.
Double Duty
Cormorants perch on flooded trees in the mixed marsh.

The Iron Bridge Wastewater Reclamation Facility can claim several firsts. It was one of the world’s largest treatment plants to use rotating biological contactors (RBCs) for BOD removal and first in the United States to use RBCs for denitrification. But its best-known feature is...

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