The invention relates to a multilayer 
vegetation zone 
water quality in situ purification method for a highly polluted 
tributary inlet, which is characterized in that reinforcing steel bars with the 
diameter of 6 and steel wires are manufactured into 
gabion frames with the 
diameter of about 1m; one end of each 
gabion frame is sealed; the other end of each 
gabion frame is movable; rock blocks, gravels and soil are added to the gabion frames; emergent 
aquatic plant root systems such as reeds, 
acorus calamus and the like are planted in soil; and each movable end is sealed and is manufactured into a gabion body with the length which is determined according to the river width of the 
tributary inlet to be purified. A plurality of gabion bodies are combined by timber piles and fixed at the 
tributary inlet to be repaired; ripraps are used for side pressing; submerged plants such as tape grasses, waterweeds an the like are planted between two gabion bodies so as to form a multilayer 
vegetation zone 
water quality in situ purification 
system which takes the plurality of gabion bodies and emergent aquatic plants on the gabion bodies as the main parts and is assisted by the submerge plants among the gabions. The method has the advantages of gradually purifying 
water body of the highly polluted tributary inlet under of 
physical chemistry and biological functions including matrix interception, micro-biological degradation, 
plant system absorption, 
root system adsorption and the like and improving water environments of the tributary inlet so as to provide effective guarantee for the quality of water flowing into a main 
stream.