Designing a nursery reed bed
Reed beds efficiently remove nutrients and organic matter from nursery runoff, see Nursery Paper ‘Reed beds clean up nursery runoff water’, issue number 2003/05. As a result, the Alstonville Centre for Tropical Horticulture in conjunction with Southern Cross University at Lismore, which were responsible for the initial research and experimental reed beds, designed and helped construct a full scale reed bed system at Bau Farm nursery on the north coast of New South Wales. This Nursery Paper briefly explains some of the factors to be considered when designing and constructing a nursery reed bed.