Pictures from an outing to the Orlando Wetlands Park

 

Interesting Facts about the Orlando Wetlands Park

1,220 acre man-made wetlands area

The purpose of the wetlands system is for the reuse of the highly treated effluent from the regional treatment facility

The system was designed with a hydraulic capacity of 35 million gallons a day of reclaimed wastewater

Seventeen cells and three distinct wetland communities were created to remove residual amounts of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, from the reclaimed water

It takes the reclaimed water 40 days to journey through the Wetlands Park

Wildlife includes:

Blue-winged teal

Green-winged teal

Common moorhens

Amaerican coots

Wood storks

White ibis

Black-crowned night herons

Bald eagles

Limpkins

Red-shouldered hawks

Black vultures

Turkey vultures

Raccoons

River otters

White-tailed deer and bobcats