Ive worked at the District for almost 30 years, and every day I go to work knowing what I do protects the

health and environment of Orange County.

John Kavoklis
Chief Plant Operator and proud OCSD employee since 1981

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Orange County Sanitation District

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By doing a job I love, I help ensure that we have a healthy and safe community where my kids and their friends can play.

Jim Spears
Operations Supervisor and proud OCSD employee since 1991

Were

your neighbors.
Every day we treat over 200 million gallons of sewageenough wastewater to fill Anaheim Stadium three times a day. The water flows from the homes and businesses of over 2.6 million people. Its a big job covering an enormous area, making us the third largest sewage treatment agency west of the Mississippi River. Our job is to make sure this critical system works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We take our job very seriously and take enormous pride in our work. Why is it so important to us? Take a close look at our faces; we may live next door to you or down the street. We raise our children or our grandchildren here. We swim and surf at the beach we work to protect. We are part of the community. There are 21 cities in our service area and you can recognize OCSD employees who live in each one of them. We may be your childs little league coach or stand next to you in the grocery line. Every day we work hard to keep up with the flow of life, making sure that when you flush or shower you dont have to worry where it all goes. And we do it all for less than $1 per day.

Were out of sight but always here for you.

Underneath our community, there are hundreds of miles of pipes. This critical underground network stretches over 500 miles and safely carries sewage to our treatment plants. You may not notice our dedicated employees out in the community or see them hard at work at our treatment plants. However, we are always here. Each day, our collection crews take special care of a complex system of pipes, pump stations, and processing facilities so that you can go about your day without giving us a passing thought. Our pipes are out of sight, but our sewer lids and employees are everywhere. Our inspectors oversee businesses making certain no toxics get into the system. Our collection team chases down odors or cleans out a pipe, as our ocean monitoring team crisscrosses 35 square miles of ocean along 11 miles of the coast to monitor water quality. Finally, our laboratory tests over 100,000 lab samples a year to make sure we get it all right. We work hard, we work smart, and were efficient in what we do. You may think of us as a place to get rid of sewage or wastewater. But we dont waste a thing. We recycle 70 million gallons of treated water every day, which goes to the Orange County Water District where it undergoes a state-of-the-art purification process. The methane gas created is recycled into electricity and the solids are used as fertilizer or green energy.
Working with the latest technology, I can identify a drop of ink in 13.2 million gallonsenough water to fill 20 Olympic-size swimming pools. This technology helps me ensure the ocean is safe for the surfers and swimmers.

Canh Nguyen
Scientist and proud OCSD employee since 1992

Were an important part of Orange Countys past, present, and future.

I joined OCSD because I want to make a difference. Now Im a part of how OCSD is planning ahead to meet the challenges for the future, for all of us.

In 1954, the county population stood at only 330,000. Today, the population stands at 2.6 million and in 2035, nearly 3 million people will call Orange County home. Since the beginning, our employees focused on protecting public health and the environment. We designed and built a regional sewer system to safely and economically serve our growing population. We used every tax dollar wisely to ensure the hundreds of miles of pipe under our streets remained healthy. Today, our commitment to preserving a healthy way of life and the economic well-being for Orange County remains firm and extends well into the future with an aggressive, ongoing capital improvement program. During the past decade alone, we spent more than $3 billion in construction projects to improve and sustain our quality of life. We are researching new technologies to further protect the environment and reuse sewage. In collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, and a private company, we designed a clean energy solution that not only produces electricity from the treatment process through a fuel cell but also provides a public fueling station for 500 hydrogen vehicles each day. The same passion and commitment that built our facilities throughout the years grows stronger each day. Our mission remains to protect the public health and the environment. Were here for you.

Joscelynn Gadzinski
Wastewater Plant Operator and proud OCSD employee since 2008