The Regional Water Quality Control Plant is operated by the City of Palo Alto for the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto and Stanford. Our environmental education programs are free of charge and available to public and private schools and scout troops throughout the cities that we serve.
Kids learn about patterns of interaction between humans and water systems.
A five-day wastewater treatment lab is now available for senior high science classes. Students make a simulated wastewater and use physical, biological, and chemical treatment steps to clean the water. Each step is directly modeled after real wastewater treatment operations and students test the water between each phase of treatment. All rights reserved.