On January 19 the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville made a site visit to the F. Wayne Hill Water Treatment Facility in Buford. Jeff Boss, Rotarian and Deputy Director of Facilities of the Gwinnett County Water Resources Department, presented an introductory slide show and then took the group on a guided tour of the facility.  The group learned how waste water enters, how it is treated biologically and chemically, and how much of it is returned to its source, Lake Lanier, as clean water.  The F. Wayne Hill facility, with the world’s largest membrane and ozone facility, is a center for research in reclamation practices and far ahead of EPA standards. Gwinnett County natives should be proud of the cutting edge practices and conservation efforts at the plant.  They produce 30% of their own electricity using the methane generated there, provide special disposal facilities for fats, oil, and grease (FOG), and through conservation efforts have effected a steady decline in the use of water per day over the last decades, despite increased population growth.  An important goal for them is to get regulation passed to get full credit for the water returned to Lake Lanier.