Campaigns to shop and eat locally are inspiring more of us to spend money closer to home. By supporting independent businesses, we create jobs for our neighbors, deepen community roots and strengthen our local economy. At WTD, we also embrace these values in the way we work with contractors to encourage local hiring and community…
West Seattle residents in the Murray neighborhood are on a mission to find a permanent place for what started out as temporary community art.
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…
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.
On September 27, 2016, WTD received recognition of the work that turns our future vision into reality.
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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.
