Field Trip to the Wastewater Treatment Plant

Today, Kim & Kelly took our class on a tour of the Wastewater Treatment Plant at Post Point. It was very educational. We learned that when we borrow water from the natural water cycle for use in our homes and businesses, the City of Bellingham must collect and clean that water before it is returned to the natural environment. After the water is collected and cleaned at the Post Point treatment plant, it is returned to Bellingham Bay and the water cycle begins, again.

We discovered that even though we are relatively large creatures with large machines helping us, when we clean up the water we have borrowed, we also need the help of some of the tiniest creatures on earth.

We used a microsope and observed those creatures at work, cleaning up some of our city's water in a clarifier at Post Point. Here's a picture:


Parents, watch out for Hexaflexagons coming home next week!