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Cleaning Up the Wusong River

A new district in China outside of Shanghai will incorporate biosoils, plants and other elements to reverse industrial pollution.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on September 18, 2009

Many developers and designers claim that their projects will leave the environment better than it was before. In the case of a new district to be built on the Wusong River outside Shanghai, that literally will be true, its designers say – special water treatment facilities and techniques will use natural biological techniques to turn a smelly industrial mess into the background of a healthy riverfront neighborhood.

The first phase of the 10.2-million-square-foot (955,000-square-meter) project in Kunshan, China, calls for the cleaning of a portion of the Wusong River through natural processes, according to SWA Group, the master planner for the project, which is being developed by the Kunshan Huaqiao Economical Development and Planning Bureau.

“Through the construction and biosoils, the river will become a cleaner water body,” says Hui-Li Lee, a principal at SWA Group’s San Francisco office and the project’s landscape planner and designer. “We are talking about the whole development being a water-cleaning system.”

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