Treating and recycling 4.3 mgd is routine business for the Ironhouse Sanitary District. Giving plant tours to 700 sixth-graders and chaperones in two days certainly is not.The Water Recycling Facility staff pulled it off in March 2016 in an event billed, “It’s a School Tour Like Never Before.” Held as part of the Oakley School District’s Science Education Week, the tours involved Delta Vista and O’Hara Park middle schools and included nearly all 11- and 12-year-olds in the district’s service area.Students learned about the water recycling process, uses for recycled water, public health and environmental protection, and more. After the
