Treatment plant tours - comments

Thanks for the awesome field trip!
-- 90% clean water is released into Puget Sound
-- Don't flush Kleenex down the toilet
-- Don't flush medicine down the toilet
Sincerely, Evelyn

Dear Casey, Brian, Greg and the West Point Treatment staff.
Thank you so much for giving us such a great tour. My favorite things that you taught us were how clean you can get the water, what not to dump down the toilets, and about the biodiversity in a wetland. One question that I have is can you buy biosolids? Thanks!
Leyisa

Thank you very much...
for a wonderful presentation and tour of the sewage treatment plant. It was informative, loaded with information, but not overwhelming. Thanks!
Lizzy

Thank you so much for providing us with a great learning opportunity on your own time. Before this experience I was unaware that it was bad to put meat fats down the drain. I was also unaware of how much water passes through the plant each day (~100 olympic pools) and that all of this water is cleaned to about 90% clean. I was wondering what the record ammount [sic] of water that has passed through the plant in one day is.
Sincerely, Colin.

Thank you for a wonderful field trip! I really actually had fun! I learned a lot, including that 45% of endangered species live and/or depend on wetlands. Also, I learned that there are three phases of treatment that our wastewater goes through, and that waste arrives at the plant in a liquid form. Finally, I learned that once the food and poop are separated from the water, they are turned into fertilizer! Thanks again!
Joshua

Dear Casey, Brian, Greg and the [waste]water treatment plant,
I had so much fun on you're [sic] tour! It was all information that I never would have learned otherwise. I really enjoyed seeing it all.

I learned:
-- that it takes 20 minutes to 12 hours to get to the sewage treatment plant.
-- that biosolids are composted poop
-- and that everything is recycled except the original waste.
Sincerely, Kelley

Dear Casey, Greg and Brian,
thank you very much for a very interesting tour of the treatment plant. It was informative and fun. I learned about how water is treated. I was amazed by all the discusting [sic] things people put down the drain. I love how the plant uses the methane gas the bacteria produces to run itself. I was fascinated by biosolids, how they are made, and what they are used for. Imagine your poop becoming fertilizer!

Thank you very much once again. But one question I have is if it takes different amounts of time for water to reach the plant (20 minutes - 12 hours), why would the plant be more busy at certain times? If lots of people take showers at 8:00 in the morning, wouldn't the water from those showers come in at varying times thoughout the day?

But anyways, thank you.
Sincerely, Q.

Dear Casey, Brian and Greg,
Thank you so much for giving us the great tour. I was having fun literally all day. Which is surprising because I was basically hanging out with poop all day.
Thanks again, Ed