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Infrastructure Operations

March 9, 2016

Puget Sound Energy Grants Put to Work at South Plant

Ratepayers are getting a great deal on big projects now underway at our South Treatment Plant in Renton, thanks to generous grants from Puget Sound Energy.

Infrastructure

February 29, 2016

Bellevue and Mercer Island public meetings to shed light on proposed sewer line update

People seeking information about King County’s North Mercer Island/Enatai Sewer Project are invited to public meetings on March 2 and March 10. Wednesday, March 2 6-8:30 p.m. Mercer Slough Environmental Education Center 1625 118th Ave. S.E., Bellevue Wednesday, March 10…

Infrastructure Operations

October 28, 2015

‘Credit’ for a job well-done brings lower costs, greater value

Operating a wastewater utility is serious business. It takes money to build and maintain our infrastructure, and that vital part of the operation is headed by WTD’s Finance Team. But fiscal fitness is everyone’s job at WTD. Just as each…

Infrastructure Water Quality

October 6, 2015

West Seattle celebrates new green stormwater infrastructure project

Late last month, we joined neighbors in West Seattle’s Sunrise Heights and Westwood neighborhoods to celebrate the completion of the Barton Combined Sewer Overflow Control (CSO) Project, WTD’s first large-scale green infrastructure project. More than just beautiful, these roadside rain…

Infrastructure Water Quality

July 25, 2015

Celebrating the new Barton Pump Station

Celebrating a new pump station and the reopening of Cove Park. It was a gorgeous day for a beach party! On June 18, neighbors in West Seattle’s Fauntleroy community joined us to cut the ribbon on our newly completed Barton…

Infrastructure

June 9, 2015

Underground news — Murray CSO Control Project

Underground construction starts with a safe work environment. See how workers used secant piles to create a support wall on the Murray CSO Project in West Seattle, which will keep up to a million gallons of stormwater and sewage out…

Infrastructure

June 5, 2015

Construction project leads to archeological discovery in Magnolia

A pair of Pince-Nez (“pinch-nose”) glasses, a style made popular by Teddy Roosevelt. Construction workers on a clean-water project in Magnolia unexpectedly discovered a window into Seattle’s past. Shortly after construction began on an underground storage tank for the South…

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