Patent ID: 7632407
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: C02F,Y02W

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating a rapid proliferation of floating aquatic plants on a body of water for use in bioremediation comprising the steps of: distributing a plurality of plants across a body of water so that at least some of the plants are sufficiently spatially distributed so as to avoid interfering with each other in an initial growth phase, at least some of the plants retained within a desired sector of the body of water, by distributing the plants in a density gradient from a water body inlet to a water body outlet, wherein a first plant density adjacent the water body inlet is greater than a second plant density adjacent the water body outlet; permitting the retained plants to produce daughter plants and to substantially cover a surface of the body of water; channeling water desired to be treated for excess nutrients to the body of water for bioremediation by the plants; and channeling treated water out from the body of water.