Cell Tech is located in Klamath Falls, a small, quiet lumber town in central southern Oregon at the foot of the Cascade Mountain Range, whose nearby, snow-covered mountains supply the rich abundance of pure water and minerals for the blue green algae's phenomenal growth. One of the natural blessings of the algae's environment is that Upper Klamath Lake is isolated from the possible influences of the lumber industry or the town's presence, since the town lies to the south of the lake.

The only outlet for Klamath Lake's fertile thousands of acre-feet of water and its 200 million pounds of the blue green algae is the Link River, which runs into Lake Ewauna to the south (which in turn empties into Klamath River) and a series of canals called A Canal, B Canal and C Canal. The A Canal, which runs near the mountains and down the valley, carries 480,000 acre-feet of water each year, and this water eventually irrigates the extremely fertile croplands of southern Oregon and northern California. The first stop on this long journey is Cell Tech.

Most of the extraneous material found in a lake is floating on the surface. There are two screens located upstream from Cell Tech that effectively remove the floating debris.

There is also a fish screen located at the junction of the lake and the canal system, which keeps the rainbow trout in the lake.

New vitality is added to the algae-rich water by two 20-foot waterfalls between the lake and Cell Tech. These falls add oxygen to the water and new opportunity for the algae to receive sunlight and energy.

Before the first stage separator, there is a 2mm stainless steel screen to pick up anything the surface screens have missed.

Next, a primary separator removes everything still suspended in the water, which is 99 percent Blue Green Algae.

The clean algae is pumped into the secondary separator, where all extracellular water is removed.