Water contamination is produced from human activities in various fields: industries, agriculture, shipping, and others. It causes aquatic pollutants which has become the most serious issue related to human health risks. The need to design a highly efficient filtration system that not only manage stormwater runoff but also treat and remove contaminants effectively to safely recharge our lakes and rivers. The designed media developed in our filtration system will consist of biochar. An efficient removal of wide range of contaminants, to be economical and easy to access, and it helps carbon sequestration which potentially will help mitigate climate change, a technique to recycle chickens’ manure. The presence of heavy metals is significantly high in urban-runoff and eventually that will contaminate both the surface and subsurface water sources. Poultry letters were collected two farms and mixed with wood and rice, 5% of dry weight base. Poultry litter biochars were produced through the pyrolysis process at temperatures 300oC and 500oC. Total14 different biochars were produced and tested for lead removal efficiency. Solid and liquid ratio, different concentration, and pH effect were evaluated. Poultry biochar shown higher removal efficiency than that of wood and rice. The biochar created at higher temperature adsorbed more lead than that of biochar produced at lower temperature.
