Treatment Plant Ponds Become A Haven For Wildlife And A Magnet For Visitors

Henderson’s treatment plant ponds provide superb bird watching and wildlife viewing in the middle of southern Nevada’s desert country.
Treatment Plant Ponds Become A Haven For Wildlife And A Magnet For Visitors
The bird viewing preserve ponds (irregular-shaped) are shown in the foreground. The water reclamation facility is at the upper left. The rectangular lagoons in upper right are no longer in service.

The two lagoons that made up the Henderson Wastewater Treatment Plant during the 1980s were merely well-manicured evaporative and percolating ponds serving a Nevada community of about 25,000.

Today those ponds are part of a nine-pond outfall system at a modern 32 mgd activated...

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