Wanted: A Permanent Home for Temporary Art
West Seattle residents in the Murray neighborhood are on a mission to find a permanent place for what started out as temporary community art.
The Changing Face of Capital Project Management
King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD) is facing the same workforce challenges that confront many clean water utilities across the United States. Hard working senior employees throughout our organization are retiring. We need to recruit new employees and help them onboard to a career protecting public health and our environment. The passage of the Clean Water Act in…
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.
Meet Your Utility of the Future- Today
On September 27, 2016, WTD received recognition of the work that turns our future vision into reality.
You Have The Power (to Stay Up to Date, That is)
By using GPS technology to find underground pipes, King County can keep trails open and traffic moving as it works to keep our region’s sewer service safe and reliable. Like a high-tech divining rod, GPS lets our surveyors find pipes without disturbing the surface. You don’t need advanced technology to keep up to date on…
Up to the Challenge, Underground-King County’s Fremont Siphon Replacement Project
This is the first in a series of articles about King County Wastewater Treatment Division’s sewer construction projects that use trenchless technology. The benefit is in the name: instead of disrupting the surface to excavate an open trench for a pipeline, trenchless construction gets the job done mostly underground. King County Wastewater Treatment Division (WTD)…
Pokémon, Don’t Go Here!
A few weeks ago, Nintendo awakened the ‘90s kid in all of us when it released its newest interactive mobile game, Pokémon Go. While it’s thrilling to see technology getting people outside and exercising, remember that you can’t always go where the Pokémon are. Within a few days of the game’s release, reports described people…
A Week of Community Service
King County WTD is like the numerous arms our most colorful representative, the giant Pacific octopus. WTD provides a multitude of services to our communities. The week of July 9 featured several service “arms”. SWIZY sees the light of day again! After building two tunnels under the Lake Washington Ship Canal for the Fremont Siphon…
Summer Utility Field Work to Support Sewer System Planning in Redmond
Workers with King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division will begin testing soil and groundwater conditions along a portion of the Sammamish River Trail near Idylwood Park in Redmond on June 23.
Innovative Floating Wetlands Protect Community Natural Area
WTD employees are developing new ways to protect the ponds in the North 40 natural area at the Brightwater Treatment Plant site.
