Since we are done GPS'ing the City of Carroll, today is the official city tour. I have lived in Carroll for 12 years, but today I really did learn some new things about the town.
Our first stop was the water treatment plant. There are 8 wells the city uses water from. All the wells feed into the treatment plant and goes through a filtration process to make the water safe for all the houses in Carroll.
Second, we went to the waste water treatment facility. Carroll feeds into the facility from the north and from the south. In order for the water to be returned to the nearby creek, it goes through 4 different filtering processes.
Third, we stopped at the streets department. Here is where they take care of all the city streets from snow removal in the winter, street repairs, and mosquito control in the summer.
Finally, after taking a tour of other city facilities such as the rec center, little league fields, cemetery, etc, we ended up at the police station since our "tour guide" was the chief of police, we got the complete tour. We saw evidence storage, lab, arsenal, weight room, interrogation rooms...everything.
We got a fairly complete tour at every place we stopped, and I was amazed at how much goes on behind the scenes at each facility. The amount of math and science that takes place every day is incredible. Our tour was way to short to really get into specifics, but I would like to go back and shadow for just a day and see the people in action rather than just taking us on a tour of the facilities. I think it would be very beneficial to see how very important facilities are run day by day for a city to function. I did not think about what goes into some of these jobs until we actually went to the facilities.
At the end of the tour, the City of Carroll Manager invited us to use the resources the city has to offer. He said that if we needed anything or anyone to come into the classroom, he would do what ever he could to make that happen. Now, to plan....
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