{"id":183639,"date":"2026-02-27T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:49:06","slug":"students-tour-arsenic-treatment-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/183639\/","title":{"rendered":"Students tour arsenic treatment facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) &#8212; Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) hosted students and instructors from the Do\u00f1a Ana Community College (DACC) Water Technology program. <\/p>\n<p>Students and instructors toured CRRUA&#8217;s arsenic treatment facility as part of its growing student internship program with DACC. The internship program provides the students with hands-on experience of CRRUA&#8217;s water and wastewater facilities, this allows them to apply classroom instruction to real-world operational settings. <\/p>\n<p>The tour of the Santa Teresa arsenic treatment facility gave students an in-depth look at the arsenic removal technology, regulatory compliance standards, system monitoring and daily operational protocols.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Photo_2_7534841773925545235.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449093\" style=\"width:438px;height:auto\"\/>CRRUA<\/p>\n<p>Students were guided through the treatment process from water intake to filtration and later water quality testing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting into a profession that provides longevity and stability, that is interesting and in high demand appealed to me,&#8221; DACC water technology student Vicente Sosa-Rountree said. &#8220;This is my first time at an actual treatment facility. Being able to see things, contextualize them, and see how they run helps me a lot. This tour was extremely helpful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CRRUA provides water and wastewater services to Sunland Park and Santa Teresa, N.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) &#8212; Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) hosted students and instructors from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-183639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}