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==Inspections and Maintenance==
 
==Inspections and Maintenance==
 
Constructed wetlands need to be regularly inspected and maintained to ensure that the system is meeting the intended level of treatment.
 
Constructed wetlands need to be regularly inspected and maintained to ensure that the system is meeting the intended level of treatment.
===Inspections===
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Like all LID systems, construction [[Inspections and maintenance:Construction Inspections]] and assumption [[Inspections and maintenance:Assumption Inspections]] inspections should be undertaken during building and handover of constructed wetlands.
 
Like all LID systems, construction [[Inspections and maintenance:Construction Inspections]] and assumption [[Inspections and maintenance:Assumption Inspections]] inspections should be undertaken during building and handover of constructed wetlands.
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Functional, performance, and environmental effects monitoring (https://wiki.sustainabletechnologies.ca/wiki/Monitoring) can help determine the frequency of routine maintenance and identify the need for more extensive corrective maintenance. Most major corrective maintenance (Inspections and maintenance:Forensic Inspection and Testing (FIT)) for constructed wetlands fall into:
 
Functional, performance, and environmental effects monitoring (https://wiki.sustainabletechnologies.ca/wiki/Monitoring) can help determine the frequency of routine maintenance and identify the need for more extensive corrective maintenance. Most major corrective maintenance (Inspections and maintenance:Forensic Inspection and Testing (FIT)) for constructed wetlands fall into:
major structural repair
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*major structural repair
bank stabilization
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*bank stabilization
sediment removal
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*sediment removal
unplugging of inlets and outlets
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*unplugging of inlets and outlets
     

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