The Fenner Conservancy wanted to build an addition for expanded programming at the Fenner Nature Center in Lansing, Michigan.
An onsite system served the environmental educational facility and organizers wanted the same for the Susan and Jack Davis Nature Pavilion. On recommendations, they hired Larry Stephens, P.E., owner of Stephens Consulting Services in Haslett, Michigan, to design the system.
“The pavilion seats 100 people,” Stephens says. “I saw a unique opportunity to teach visitors the benefits of treating wastewater with everyday onsite components, then using the effluent to flush lavatory fixtures.”
He had the experience. In 1997, Stephens designed the first water recycling
