The Water Treatment Plant

It took an hour to get there. It was very hot when we got there. We passed a river running through the water treatment plant. There was a nice lady that came to us and gave us a tour around the water treatment plant.

The first place we went to was this big gate that run along the river. It took out all of the big pieces of trash in the river. It was a gate with big holes in it. I had a question in my head about the gate, "How much trash does the gate gather each day?"

After that we went to a place where they add Minerals to to the water. They did that to clean the water. A question I had was, " How many minerals do they add to the water?"

In the next place we went to they were adding chlorine to the water. This step was called coagulation. They did this to get flocks of dirt that was in the water. A question I had in my head was, " How big can a flock get?"

Then we went to a place where they took out the particles of the flock out of the water and put it in the waste tower. This step was called sedimentation.

After that we went to a place where they killed all of the bacteria. This step was called filtration and disinfection.

Then we went to the control room where you could see what was happening in the whole water treatment plant. It was really cool and there were so many buttons in that room.

After that we went to the lab there and looked at the river water before it was cleaned and the river water after it was cleaned. There was such a big difference! The water was so much cleaner after it was cleaned!

They were very kind to us and they gave us some water to drink. Then we watched a movie that was a cartoon and it talked about all of the thing that the water has to go through to get clean. It wasn't a boring movie, some parts were kind of funny. They gave us some souvenirs for the school. It was a long, and tiring ride back to school!