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Educational Field Trips and Tours

SEEK - Sharing Environmental Education Knowledge

Schedule an educational field trip to a solid waste facility, a sewer facility, or a stormwater project site. 

​​Sewer
​Water use, sewer systems, wastewater treatment
​Stormwater
​Stormwater, salmon, streams, and water quality
​Recycling and Waste
Waste reduction and management, recycling, composting

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​ ​Clear Creek Floodplain Project

Located along the north part of the Clear Creek Trail in Silverdale, this stream restoration project completed in 2017 has great examples of good salmon habitat complete with beaver dams. Meet a stormwater educator on-site with your students to learn about the restoration and how it has impacted salmon, the ecosystem, and the community.


 ​Kitsap County’s Olympic View Transfer Station (OVTS)

​​This facility receives and processes all solid waste (garbage) from both commercial and private haulers in Kitsap and North Mason Counties. At the OVTS facility, solid waste is compacted into 30-ton bales, loaded into metal shipping containers, and placed onto the railroad for transport and disposal at the Columbia Ridge Sanitary Landfill in Arlington, Oregon.

 Kitsap County Household Hazardous Waste Facility

The facility accepts and safely packages household and small business hazardous waste for proper management.

​​ Kitsap County Central Kitsap Wastewater Treatment Plant

​This facility treats wastewater in the central area of Kitsap County. The treatment plant serves the cities of Silverdale, Keyport, and Poulsbo, the Central Kitsap area, the Naval Submarine Base Bangor, and the Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station at Keyport. An average of over 3 million gallons of wastewater is treated here each day.

Kitsap County Kingston Wastewater Treatment Plant

​This facility receives sewage from residential and light commercial activities in Kingston. After wastewater is treated, effluent is discharged into Puget Sound approximately 1 mile from the shoreline at a depth of 165 feet below mean low water.

Kitsap County Manchester Wastewater Treatment Plant

This facility treats domestic sewage from residential and light commercial activities in the Town of Manchester. In addition, the facility receives wastewater from the Manchester State Park, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laboratory in Manchester, and the Manchester Naval Fuel Depot. The effluent is discharged 880 feet from the shoreline of Puget Sound at a depth of 60 feet below the mean low water.

​ ​Kitsap County Suquamish Wastewater Treatment Plant

​This facility treats wastewater from residential and light commercial activities in the town of Suquamish, and the Clearwater Hotel and Resort Casino. The treatment plant effluent is discharged into Port Madison Bay, Puget Sound. The effluent is discharged approximately 2,300 feet offshore at a depth of 43 feet below mean low water.

​ ​Manchester Stormwater Park (qaq'ad)

This park, once the site of contaminated soils from an old gas station, collects and treats runoff from the uphill neighborhoods. The runoff is then discharged into Puget Sound at Pomeroy Park. Students participate in a visual scavenger hunt to learn how the park treats runoff. You can have lunch at Pomeroy Park, weather permitting. This field trip may be combined with a tour of the Manchester Sewer Plant for an all-day option.

 ​Salmon Haven at Dickerson Creek

​One of the most productive salmon streams in Kitsap County, this is a great site for a fall field trip to see salmon return. As an added bonus, schedule a Stormwater Program Educator to meet your class and share information about the stream restoration project completed here in 2016.

City of Bremerton Wastewater Treatment Plant

​Non-county facility; tour request will be forwarded to facility contact upon receipt.

South Kitsap Water Reclamation Facility

Non-county facility; tour request will be forwarded to facility contact upon receipt.