Advanced Water Purification Facility designed by Mainstreet Architects + Planners, Inc. With the ever-increasing challenges of water use in Southern California, the City of Oxnard has set itself apart from other municipalities through its efforts to reduce imported water used to service their residents, businesses, and farmers by way of the GREAT Program. The GREAT Program, or Groundwater Recovery Enhancement and Treatment Program, uses reclaimed water found within the city limits reducing the impact on other, more stressed water sources.
Photography: Michael A. Cabezas
Engagement of the community is critical when faced with diminishing natural resources, and ownership in its preservation comes through education of the public. As part of the GREAT Program, the Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) not only conditions wastewater for eventual reuse but provides a place for water treatment education and water resource management to occur. Photography: Michael A. Cabezas
The AWPF is comprised of five separate process-oriented facilities which will provide 25 million gallons a day (MGD) of reclaimed water to the City. A freestanding education/administration building serving as a Science Center is the public?s first impression of the AWPF and serves as the beginning for tours of the processing facility. The Science Center is the physical point of transition between the public and the treatment process, informing the shape and materiality, humanizing the industrial uses a...