2017-18

January 2018
Interns from El Camino Creek, Olivenhain Pioneer and Park Dale Lane
visited Olivenhain Municipal Water District and ​the beautiful Elfin Forest Reserve and analyzed the microorganisms in the creek. They then visited David C. McCollom Water Treatment Plant to learn about how drinking water is treated.
December 2017
SWPPP interns at Jefferson Elementary joined students from Ocean Knoll to tour the Low-Impact Development structures in place at La Costa Town Center, visited Encinitas Public Works,  and toured the Leucadia Wastewater District.  
December 2017
SWPPP Interns from Mission Estancia and La Costa Heights, as well as, interns from our new Water Management Program at La Costa Heights toured Meadowlark Water Reclamation Facility in Carlsbad  and Vallecitos Water District Water Operations Department in San Marcos to view the computerized control room and tour the Sustainable Demonstration Garden.

2016-17

March 2017
Lincoln Middle School's ZWPPP interns were awed to watch microbes gobble up contaminants at Oceanside's San Luis Rey Wastewater Treatment Plant. ZWPPP is a program unique to Lincoln that focuses on zero waste + stormwater pollution prevention.
February 2017 
San Dieguito Academy interns toured San Elijo Water Reclamation Facility to see what happens to water that goes down the plumbing drains on their campus and then toured San Elijo Lagoon to see how runoff from their school campus flows directly to the lagoon
October 2016
Interns from Park Dale Lane, Paul Ecke-Central and Capri toured the Encina Wastewater Authority to understand how water that is sent down our plumbing system is treated and then to Batiquitos Lagoon to see where runoff from their campus ends up.
October 2016
City officials gave a walking tour of Encinitas Stormwater Pollution Prevention BMPs to student interns from El Camino Creek, Flora Vista, and Ocean Knoll followed by a visit to the Moonlight Beach outflow.
October 2016
Interns from Mission Estancia, Olivenhain Pioneer and La Costa Heights were given a private tour of ​Elfin Forest Reserve and learned about "urban drool".  They then visited David C. McCollom Water Treatment Plant to learn about how our drinking water is treated.

2015-16

April 2016
Interns met with Carlsbad City Planners and Engineers to discuss the design and implementation of BMPs throughout La Costa Town Center.  They also toured various bio swales and water retention areas and visited Leucadia Wastewater District facility.
April 2016
​Encinitas Clean Water Department  hosted SWPPP interns in a tour of Best Management Practices in storm water pollution prevention throughout Encinitas. These 5th and 6th grade students from El Camino Creek, Ocean Knoll, and La Costa Heights visited the Coaster parking lot, Cottonwood Creek Park, and Moonlight Beach outflow to understand the impact of proper storm water pollution planning.
October 2015 
La Costa Heights, El Camino Creek, Flora Vista, Mission Estancia, Olivenhain Pioneer and Ocean Knoll collect water samples at the mouth of Batiquitos Lagoon and then tour the Encina Wastewater Facility.

2014-15

March 2015
La Costa Heights, El Camino Creek, Flora Vista, Mission Estancia, Olivenhain Pioneer tour Leucadia Wastewater Facility and Pump Station. The also review the new La Costa Town Center BMPs with the planners from the City of Carlsbad.
October 2014 
La Costa Heights, El Camino Creek, Flora Vista, Mission Estancia, Olivenhain Pioneer and Ocean Knoll collect water samples at the mouth of Batiquitos Lagoon and then tour the Encina Wastewater Facility.

2013-14

March 2014
La Costa Heights and El Camino Creek tour City of Encinitas BMPs and learn about Moonlight Beach outfall discharge. 
October 2013
La Costa Heights and El Camino Creek go to mouth of Batiquitos Lagoon and Encina Wastewater Facility.