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Community Operations

April 19, 2018

The nose shouldn’t know you live near South Treatment Plant. But if you smell something, we’re all ears

While it doesn’t smell like roses inside a wastewater treatment plant, we put lot of effort into making sure our plants are good neighbors. But when fugitive odors jump the fence line? We want to hear from you.

Community

March 28, 2018

Go salmon! WaterWorks grant supports Finn Hill Neighborhood’s work to protect Denny Creek

A sense of mission and a small grant can go a long way. Finn Hill Neighborhood Alliance’s rain water harvesting project in Kirkland earned a $15,000 grant through King County's WaterWorks Program to protect Denny Creek, an important salmon-bearing stream.

Community Infrastructure Water Quality

February 21, 2018

King County turns the past into a sustainable future in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood

Preparing a site for a major construction project offered a great opportunity to find new uses for old building materials. Our Georgetown Wet Weather Facility project team show how King County is working toward a healthy future for our communities…

Community Infrastructure

December 8, 2017

Feedback wanted: Visit our online open house on the Lake Hills and NW Lake Sammamish Sewer Upgrade Project in Redmond

Review our project plans to upgrade aging sewer infrastructure in Redmond, and share input on design at an online open house through Jan. 31.

Community Water Quality

October 18, 2017

RainWise program celebrates new installation in North Seattle

With the support of the RainWise program, a church in Seattle’s Roosevelt neighborhood just celebrated a new rain garden installation that will keep over 70,000 gallons of stormwater out of the sewer system each year, and control overflows into local…

Community Operations

September 19, 2017

Fast action by Vashon Treatment Plant neighbors helps recover missing buoy

A drifting buoy in Puget Sound was quickly retrieved thanks to watchful community members.

Community People

August 17, 2017

CitySoil Farm hosts a special group of summer campers

King County hosts a special group of campers at CitySoil Farm. They learned how we protect people and the environment, and helped provide for families just like theirs.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Infrastructure Water Quality

July 18, 2017

A brush with art: students color King County’s Georgetown project

Maple Elementary students learn about art and clean water, and help share the value of King County's Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station project with their entire community.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

July 7, 2017

Roadside rain garden project earns local civil engineering honors

Though the term “infrastructure” might spark images of concrete and steel, today’s engineers increasingly see nature as another viable building tool for shaping 21st century cities.

Community Infrastructure Water Quality

June 29, 2017

The Fremont community celebrates a solution to an old problem

The Fremont community joined King County to celebrate the new Fremont Siphon Facility, a solution to a century old problem.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Infrastructure Water Quality

June 22, 2017

King County celebrates a facility — and a community

When King County dedicates a new clean water facility, we invite people near and far to join us. On June 10, we celebrated the new Murray Wet Weather Facility in West Seattle.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community

June 9, 2017

CitySoil Farm grows healthy food and community

CitySoil Farm partners, students, and volunteers delivered a harvest of health to the White Center Food Bank in 2016.

Monica Van der Vieren