​The Vit Plant raised nearly $19,000 for Junior Achievement of the Tri-Cities in March. Twenty-four teams of employees participated in the 23rd Annual Junior Achievement Bowling Classic. The Bechtel Foundation provided an additional donation of $25,000. The donations will help JA impact more than 11,000 students in the southeastern Washington area by teaching them real-world business skills.

Several Hanford Vit Plant employees participated in an Introduce a Girl to Engineering event at the Richland Public Library. The Women@Bechtel - Richland Chapter coordinated the event as part of Engineers Week with volunteers also coming from the Vit Plant's NextGen group, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Women Engineers, and other local companies. About 100 students participated in a half-dozen STEM activities, which included pocket-sized coding robots called Ozobots and tests to see how many coins a makeshift boat of aluminum foil could hold.

Vit Plant engineers visited more than 650 local students in 27 classrooms as part of DiscoverE 2019. The engineers visited local middle schools to present the benefits of careers in engineering fields to students. They also taught engineering principles through hands-on classroom activities, such as building bridges with marshmallows and toothpicks, demonstrating chemical reactions with “elephant toothpaste,” and building electric motors with magnets, batteries, and copper wire.

The Hanford Vit Plant has long supported DiscoverE, formerly known as Engineers Week, which is one of the oldest professional outreach efforts in America.

• $191 million in subcontracts across Washington and Oregon with $164 million of that total remaining in the Tri-Cities.
• $800,000 in donations to Tri-Cities nonprofits.
• 2,700 employees, including 850 craft personnel and 300 veterans
• $350 million in payroll.

The Effluent Management Facility (EMF) utility building is located to the south of the EMF and will house HVAC equipment and various Balance of Facilities (BOF) utility system equipment used in support of the EMF process and ventilation systems. The utility building is approximately 112 feet long, 70.5 feet wide, and 28 feet tall. Employees in the photo are erecting scaffolding at the building.