Little Utility with a Big Vision: Wastewater Problems to Water Supply Solutions at the Us Coast Guard’s Tracen Petaluma

摘要

The U.S Coast Guard’s Training Center (TRACEN) Petaluma is the largest training facility onrnthe west coast and home to the Coast Guard Leadership Development Center’s Chief PettyrnOfficer Academy. Like all federal installations TRACEN is charged with improving its longtermrnsustainability, but this facility has upped the ante by setting its vision on becoming the mostrnenvironmentally friendly Coast Guard Base in the world. When the need arose to upgrade agingrnwastewater treatment infrastructure, the Coast Guard’s vision guided a smart planning andrndesign effort in order to produce a sustainable facility that serves multiple long-term utilityrnsystem needs.