Water Quality Excellence Award of Outstanding Public Outreach in Pollution Prevention
In 2006, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board presented Mt. View Sanitary District with the Water Quality Excellence Award of Outstanding Public Outreach in Pollution Prevention:
- For leadership in developing an outstanding P2 educational program to educate children about marsh ecology, pollutants, how they enter the environment, and P2 alternatives for the home;
- For implanting a highly collaborative program through standard science curricula continuously taught to over 1,500 third-fifth graders, county-wide each year;
- For developing model educational references about marsh ecology and P2, thereby promoting P2 awareness and long-term behavioral changes in future generations.