April 19, 2016
Building Community Through Green Stormwater Infrastructure
A green infrastructure project at Georgetown's Carlton Grocery is protecting water quality and supporting economic opportunity for people in south Seattle’s diverse neighborhoods.
March 29, 2016
Apply for WaterWorks Grants Through May 25
King County is making it easier for people to launch projects to control pollution and build healthy communities through funding from the WaterWorks Grant Program.
March 4, 2016
Peace Lutheran Church goes RainWise
Peace Lutheran Church in West Seattle recently celebrated the installation of two rain gardens and five cisterns that will help control stormwater runoff that contributes to pollution in Puget Sound.
March 3, 2016
Gardening tips, free compost samples to 9,000 attendees at the 2016 Northwest Flower and Garden Show
King County helped garden enthusiasts turn their dirt around at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, giving away a total of five pickup trucks worth of free compost. Booth visitors learned exciting facts about wastewater treatment (for example, that they…
February 4, 2016
Protecting water quality – it’s good business! Survey coming soon
Access to the great outdoors is just one reason King County is such an awesome place to live and work. Because protecting our natural resources is a big job, we need everyone’s help. This spring, WTD will mail a survey…
December 3, 2015
Living environmental history with our first engineer
To understand our story, it’s best to start from the very beginning. Back in the 1950s, wastewater flowed largely untreated into Lake Washington, the Green and Duwamish Rivers, and Puget Sound, fouling water and closing local beaches. So, in 1958…
December 1, 2015
Happy holidays start with proper disposal of fats, oils and grease
While retailers welcome Black Friday as one of their busiest shopping days of the year, many plumbers now refer to the day after Thanksgiving as “Brown Friday” for the uptick in business they get from feast-clogged pipes and sewer lines.…
November 20, 2015
Seattle Mosque gets RainWise
Hope Academy and Alnoor Mosque recently celebrated the completion a new RainWise rain garden and cistern project, the first ever at a mosque in Seattle. In addition to two rain gardens and four cisterns that will keep polluted runoff and…
November 6, 2015
Great news! Deadline extended in contest to name King County’s new environmental research vessel
King County's research vessel, The Liberty, monitoring water quality in Puget SoundWTD invites people to submit ideas in a “Name the Vessel” competition that kicked off on Nov. 6. King County residents now have until Nov. 30 to enter a…