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Green Paw Aggies – Campus Environmental Leadership Group Ashley Wade Civil/Architectural Engineering Senior President, Green Paw Aggies Green Paw Aggies is a new student organization on campus that helps North Carolina A&T become more sustainable and reduce the carbon footprint. Green Paw Aggies was previously under the umbrella of ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers). One of the main objective of Green Paw Aggies is to serve as a collection pool for all environmental and sustainable issues on campus. The primary responsibilities of Green Paw Aggies include but are not limited to: • Developing the next generation of “Green” leaders and increasing the base of students calling for sustainable changes • Serving as an educational tool for N.C. A&T and surrounding communities for issues dealing with sustainable changes and green economic development • Promoting and coordinating eco-friendly and economic sustainability goals and initiatives for the campus and the surrounding community • Creating and upholding a collaboration between students, student organizations, faculty and staff. 10
Constructed Wetlands G.B. Reddy, PhD Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Design Animal production which is vital for protein demand and the economy is one of the regulations. Constructed wetlands have been used or at least investigated for treatment of animal waste in the United major components of United States States and around the world. Constructed agriculture. Animal production brings along wetlands are cost- effective, passive, easy to a baggage of waste production and operate, efficient in nutrient removal, environmental problems. These problems flexible in soil specificity, and are related to odor, pathogens, environmentally friendly. Even though concentration of nutrients, and limited land constructed wetlands have been proven in availability for treatment. Particularly in the nutrient removal, it could be a challenge to swine industry, large swine production treat highly concentrated swine wastewater occurs in confinement and generates large and to understand the function through its quantities of waste in a limited per-unit physical, chemical, and biological processes. area. Traditionally, swine operations in North Carolina A&T State University many parts of the world flush the waste received approximately $20,000 from the from swine houses into an anaerobic lagoon Army Core of Engineers to construct and from there the lagoon water is applied wetlands at the swine unit on the on the land for treatment. In many places, University Farm. Six marsh-pond-marsh the limited land and continuous constructed wetland cells (44 m length and applications of wastewater pose a threat to 11m width) were designed in 1995. Each cell the surface and ground water quality. had a 20 m middle pond section and 10 m marsh section at the influent and effluent The constructed wetlands can be a pre- ends. Shallow sections with marshes at the treatment technology before land influent and effluent ends and deep section application to reduce water quality in the pond had an operating water depth of pollution and to meet environmental 15 cm and 75 cm, respectively. The marsh 11
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