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TABLE 18.1
Systematic Process Needed for Engineering
Natural Treatment Systems
Planning
Envision the project and charter a team.
Characterize the water source.
Target the desired water regime.
Determine the area needed for calculated performance.
Collect data.
Compare sites, concepts, and preliminary cost estimates.
Inform the public and media.
Select the development site and design concept.
Design
Develop a detailed design.
Estimate costs.
Reconcile the design with budget (or vice versa).
Construction
Publish plans and specs.
Select a bid.
Construct the project.
Perform a quality check and final checklist.
Management
Initiate start-up carefully.
Operate within determined specs.
Monitor
Adjust in response to change.
Keep the public informed.
Source: Bays (2004).
it is the Everglades or small arid-region wetlands in the West, all started with a
relatively humble pilot system or demonstration project. And this is often the only
way to get acceptance for large-scale, large-expenditure projects such as those being
contemplated for Iraq (Bays 2004).
The external training of Iraqi leaders will be important for building morale and
understanding. The goal is to make the future water resource leaders in Iraq accept
this technology and have it trickle down to those in the trenches undertaking the
restorative redevelopment of the marshlands. Bays (2004) therefore believes that the
directors of the various environmental ministries in Iraq need to take a tour to visit
the projects described in this chapter so that they can become educated and conver-
sant in the technology and then become effective champions for implementing such
natural treatment projects back home.