Poplar Plantings Help Keep Nutrients Out Of Trout Streams

A Montana clean-water plant removes nutrients from a pristine river system with a poplar plantation that also adds beauty to the landscape.
Poplar Plantings Help Keep Nutrients Out Of Trout Streams
The trees were planted May 2014 as 10-inch whips. By September they were 7 to 10 feet tall.

Nearly 100,000 hybrid poplar trees on 180 acres near the Missoula Wastewater Treatment Plant are thriving on up to 20 percent of the effluent from the 12 mgd design/8 mgd average advanced treatment facility.

“That’s a million gallons a day that isn’t discharged into the Clark...

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