Biological Science

Phytogation: plant irrigation used for a specific soil and water quality improvement.

Use of natural biological systems to improve water quality - it includes the use of plants, soil, microbes, and of course water in specific combination to direct a solution.

Systems: First things first...
Develop and manage a living soil vadose zone habitat - The top 15 inches of the vadose zone will or need to have
1) permeable soil medium of minerals and organic matter.
2) Living plant roots
3) living soil organisms
4) air
5) heat
6) and nothing will happen without moisture (30-60% soil water) this leads to maximum biological soil activity.

Grey fertigation: leachate or other grey water pumped continuously through a bio plant system for the purpose:
1) maximizing transpiration of h2O to the atmosphere.
2) bind contaminants in the plant root zone
3) provide plant nutrient needs
4) manage the soil habitat for maximum microbial breakdown on specific contaminants

ETCap: (poplar/willow acreage) (vetiver grass) – plant system used for leachate fertigation

EBuffers -G: (poplar grove) - static system - water pumping system - hydraulic control

EBuffers R: (poplar riparian strip) - groundwater interception system

EGation: using tree bioreactor to clean groundwater by bringing water to the surface and drip water over the tree rows vadose biological zone.
1) Maximizing transpiration of h2O to the atmosphere.
2) bind contaminants in the plant root zone
3) provide plant nutrient needs
4) manage the soil habitat for maximum microbial breakdown on specific contaminants.