Hydrology Field Trip

Thursday was an adventure! This day started and ended with my Hydrology Field Trip! It started with visit to the Rexburg Water Treatment Center. Second was a tour of the Hydroelectric power plant in Idaho Falls, and continued on to a stop at the Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls and a stop at Thousand Springs along the Snake River and then we spent a little time with the fish at Hagerman National & State Fish Hatchery. It was a very long day!

Taking in the breath taking sights of the poop ponds at the Water Treatment Center in Rexburg, ID.  The material is aerated in these ponds so that it can be broken down by bacteria.  

A life preserver in case some unfortunate soul falls into the ponds.

Candace and Dani having a grand 'ole time at the poop factory.

This is a video of the conveyor belt that takes the water out of the poop.

The name says it all.

The Control Room at the Hydroelectric Plant could also be called the Star Wars Room.

The room with the turbines at the hydroelectric plant. Only five of us could go down  into this room at a time. 

There were a lot of these signs at the hydroelectric plant.

Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, ID

Me and the Snake River.

Exciting columnar joints!

Here you can see the stratigraphy of the Snake River Canyon.

Thousand Springs has that name for a reason.

My underwater camera was handy when we took pictures of the White Sturgeon at the Fish Hatchery.

Here's Candace for scale. If you can't see it, the fish is the full width of the photo.

The eye of the Sturgeon.