Aerial Sewer Tour - Chorro Valley

I'm going to the annual meeting of SLOCAS, the San Luis Obispo Archeological Society, on Saturday, February 22 - today, actually. So it is always tricky to get there because their building is on the property of Camp San Luis, and I can never recall how I got there the last time. So I employ Google Earth to figure out how to drive my way there. Once when I was smart about this, I stuck a pin in the location. 

While I was hovering around the location, I spotted something else, a wastewater treatment plant!!! I may have been thinking wastewater treatment plants in connection with SLOCAS anyway. The County's Environmental Division Manager, Kate Ballantyne, who worked on our Los Osos WWTF, happens to be the Vice Chairperson of SLOCAS. She has turned up in this blog before. Plus, writing a blog like this for—horrors—EXACTLY eight years now to the day, that topic is never far from mind anyway.

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Now, I can only imagine that this services Camp San Luis. The colors in the aeration basins look rather....funky. Actually, it looks abandoned. Where does the sewage go now?

Then I recalled the infamous California Men's Colony sewer in the Chorro Valley, that had multi-dumps of sewage into Chorro Creek over the years, which is fairly nearby to the Camp. So I looked around.

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And I found the image below near railroad tracks - I saw this in person while on the train going to Portland, Oregon a few years back. Is this the CMC plant? It was south east of the CMC.

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Anyway, it was a fun waste use of time time to try to ID these plants. Google does a lovely job on these aerials. I did look up the terms of service and it seems as I am non-commercial and display the logo, I won't get sued for using them!