An underserved community trains for a career in wastewater and green infrastructure.

Series Number 3.0
Length: 9 mins 35 secs
Languages: Subtitles available in English and Spanish. Press the CC button in the video player.

For more than twenty years, Boston-based non-profit X-Cel Education has been helping adult students get their high school education. In 2020, X-Cel added a new curriculum: the X-Cel Conservation Corps. The 10-week course puts their Corps Members on track to get a well-paying job and career in wastewater management. 

In this episode, one cohort of Corps Members goes through the X-Cel program. Don Sands, executive director of X-Cel Education, and Aaron Dale, the Conservation Corps Program coordinator, teach them about wastewater treatment. With guidance from the Charles River Watershed Association and Neponset River Watershed Association, as well as engineering firms Horsley Witten and Woodard & Curran, the Corps Members work on green infrastructure conservation projects at Boston public schools and journey out of the city to test the water and health of organisms in Massachusetts rivers and streams.

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