Puerto Rico Wastewater Garden system is thriving after 20 years of operation During December 2022, Dr. Mark Nelson visited and worked at the Las Casas de la Selva sustainablerainforest timber project near Patillas, Puerto Rico, a project to which the Institute of Ecotechnicsconsults. The Wastewater Garden system which was installed in 2002 with support from the Puerto Rican Department of…
Construction was begun on February 6th, 2023 for implementation of Phase 1 of the project. This phase will include a bridge to the project site, earth moving to created an initial treatment wetland with native Iraqi marsh vegetation of reeds. When this is ready, a pipe will be connected from the “switch plant” where sewage from houses in el Chibaish,…