The Blue Center for Water Technologies was established in 2015 through a Bristol Community College Presidential Fellowship. The Mission of the Blue center is to protect and preserve our water resources through education and community collaboration. In the area of education, we have programs at the college that prepare students for careers in the water and wastewater fields. During the Presidential Fellowship year a National Science Foundation/ Advanced Technological Education proposal was prepared and submitted. In 2016 the National Science Foundation awarded Bristol Community College a $602,000 award for the New England Water Treatment Training (NEWTT) project to develop training programs for water and wastewater operators that will be developed with direct input from industry and be able to be implemented in community colleges throughout New England. In the area of community collaboration, the Blue Center has worked with regional municipalities and contractors to develop internship programs for our students which have often lead to the filling of needed positions in the organizations. We work with are high schools to provide the opportunity to borrow our laboratory equipment through our Lending Laboratory, which was developed and expanded under earlier NSF grants. This will be extended to community colleges through the NEWTT project. We also offer communities assistance in projects that they are conducting in areas where we may have a level of knowledge and appropriate equipment for their needs.

Salt Water Fish Tank and Coral Reef

Blue Center Aquaculture System

Blue Center Laboratory (which also holds our Lending Lab equipment)

Student's at King Phillips Brook