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Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center
On Saturday D. and I took a brief tour of the Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, which process 8 million gallons of secondary-treated effluent a day and purifies it to a very high quality. Here are some of the pics I took.
The crowd waits for our tour to begin.
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Heron's Head Park
Heron's Head Park
On Saturday D. and I had an errand to do in San Francisco and before heading home we took a brief stroll in Heron's Head Park on the edge of San Francisco Bay, where we saw the wastewater treatment system inside the park's EcoCenter, plus the stuff at neighboring Pier 96 and the wildlife in the marsh (wildflowers, western gulls ( Read more... ) -
Sunnyvale Baylands
Sunnyvale Baylands
On Sunday D. and I took a walk along the Bay Trail in Sunnyvale where it skirted the salt evaporation ponds on the edge of San Francisco Bay and the oxidation ponds of the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant. Here are some of the pics I took.
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Water Pollution Control Plant
Water Pollution Control Plant,
or, what not to flush down your toilet
On Saturday D. and I took a tour of the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant in Alviso. Yes, it's where sewage is processed.
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Sunnyvale Levees
Sunnyvale Levees
On Sunday D. and I went out to the levees around the salt ponds and water pollution control plant oxidation ponds in Sunnyvale. Here's some pics I took.
One of the water treatment lagoons.
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