“…Among natural materials, sand has been observed to act as a sorbent for phosphorus in constructed reed beds (Arias et al, 2001;Bubba et al, 2003). Many researchers (Ugurlu and Salman, 1998;Khelifi et al, 2002;Agyei et al, 2000Agyei et al, , 2002Grubb et al, 2000;Cheung and Venkitachalam, 2000;Sakadevan and Bavor, 1998;Johansson, 1999;Johansson and Gustafsson, 2000;Oguz, 2004) have all reported that fly ash and/or slag are highly efficient media for removing phosphorus in filtration and constructed wetland systems. Clay minerals and soils such as reactive Ca, Fe and Al have also been shown to strongly adsorb phosphorus, the efficiency depending on their composition (Yuan et al, 2005).…”