LFP Elementary Students Attend Stormwater Engineering Program At Brightwater

A bus transportation grant from the LFP Stewardship Foundation made it possible for LFP Elementary fifth graders to attend the Stormwater Engineering Program at Brightwater Sewage Treatment Plant on Friday, October 31st, 2025. 

Students actively engaged in the engineering design process to tackle stormwater engineering problems using models of the landscape to identify stormwater issues, research the innovative work that engineers did around the treatment plant, and then return to their models to test possible solutions. The program is designed for classes studying erosion, deposition, stormwater management, and environmental engineering.

Students learned to:

• Explain how an Engineering Design Process can help them develop solutions to problems.
• Make connections between a stormwater model and stormwater in the real world.
• Recognize ways that engineers build features to slow down water and reduce erosion.
• Design and defend a solution to an engineering problem using their observations and data.
• Understand the effects of human decisions on the land, both positive and negative.
• Identify the ways they could positively affect stormwater systems in their own communities.