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Community Water Quality

January 21, 2017

Making Your Landscape a Dream, Not a Nightmare

We care about our customers and Puget Sound. That's why we're offering Natural Yard Care workshops to help you turn your yard into a dream-not a nightmare.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community People

January 18, 2017

Bright Lights in Our Workplace

People who mentor interns have to get comfortable with a simple concept: you win some, you lose some. Meet Kirsten Garcia, bright light.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

December 17, 2016

Helping Communities Celebrate the Rain

Rain used to be welcomed in our region. King County's WaterWorks Grant Program is helping our communities celebrate the rain once again.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

December 12, 2016

Reaching Out: A Green Investment Has an Unexpected Return

One tool for controlling Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) brings neighborhoods together around stormwater facilities- in people's yards.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

November 28, 2016

Healing Hamm Creek- and People, Too

Hamm Creek resides in the southern Duwamish Watershed, with many work and volunteer groups extending hands to save patches of nature along its banks. Today, the Hamm Creek Estuary looks like the historic Duwamish River habitat it's meant to be,…

Monica Van der Vieren

Community People

November 17, 2016

King County Employees Dig in on a Day of Service at Duwamish Hill Preserve

At King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD), we spend our days operating and building wastewater infrastructure and finding ways to make our utility even more sustainable in the future. All that hard work doesn’t stop us from pitching in on…

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Infrastructure Water Quality

October 31, 2016

What You Can’t See Makes All the Difference at North Beach

As long as everything’s working right, sewers are out of sight, out of mind. And during fierce early season storms, an unseen pollution control facility at North Beach is protecting Puget Sound.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

October 28, 2016

Reaching Out: Showing You Where Your Wastewater Flows

King County WTD's rolling wastewater education center helps us reach out to communities in our service area.

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

October 11, 2016

Join the Crowd: RainWise Celebrates 1,000 Stewards!

Rainwise is celebrating a milestone- over 1000 installations, and 1000 stewards protecting our waters!

Monica Van der Vieren

Community

October 5, 2016

A Fishy Time of Year

Chinook in Issaquah Creek, photo by Larry Franks Every year, fall rains herald salmon upstream to spawn. For millennia, the fall salmon season gathered people together who relied on the fish as a critical food source to get through the…

Monica Van der Vieren

Community Water Quality

September 22, 2016

Bert the Salmon Rises Again

This past summer we were attending the Mercer Island Summer Celebration when we noticed a familiar image on a sandwich board outside of the Mercer Island Public Works booth. This hand-painted image was none other than the beloved “Bert the…

Community Operations People

August 19, 2016

Celebrating 50 years of Work to Keep Our Waters Clean

Raw sewage flowed from pipes at every street end. River waters in cities were so dead that fish would avoid swimming upstream. “Scum and toilet debris floated on the water,” said one person, shaking his head. “It stunk. We weren’t…

Monica Van der Vieren