Each year from spring through autumn, migrating humpback and California gray whales are a major attraction in coastline waters near San Francisco Bay, which is also the receiving water for the city of Livermore Water Reclamation Plant.All year long, the likenesses of those whales can be seen on the disinfection buildings of the plant (8.5 mgd design capacity) at the discharge near the Bay’s eastern shore, 16 miles from the plant proper.Huge murals of humpbacks, gray whales, dolphins and other ocean creatures cover the entire walls of the concrete structures. They were painted by Livermore’s director of Public Works, Darren
