King County Wastewater Treatment Division

WTD Updates

June 12, 2018

Industrial Waste Fees for Surcharge Customers

Businesses that send “high strength” or concentrated organic wastewater to the sewer system pay more because it costs more to treat this wastewater. KCIW’s Surcharge Fee currently pays for both treating concentrated “high-strength” waste at a treatment plant and the…

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WTD Updates

June 12, 2018

Updating Industrial Waste Fees: Next Steps

The King County Industrial Waste (KCIW) program has been working on a proposal to update the structure of its fee system. A two-step decision-making process is starting in 2018. First the King County Council will consider an ordinance to update…

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Infrastructure People

May 25, 2018

Wastewater employees’ hard work saves ratepayers $32 million

Cross-posted from KC Employee News In April, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued its first-ever loan from the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) for $134.5 million to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division to help finance the Georgetown Wet…

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People

May 25, 2018

Employee engagement, health and well-being

Cross-posted from KC Employee News When the Department of Natural Resources and Parks’s Wastewater Comprehensive Planning and GIS group sat down to review their engagement survey results, they kept coming back to one thing – improving their well-being. To support…

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Operations People

May 25, 2018

Chief Operating Officer meets with treatment plant employees

Cross-posted from KC Employee News Casey Sixkiller, Chief Operating Officer for King County Executive Dow Constantine, has been out meeting employees and leaders at worksites across the county since joining Executive Constantine’s Senior Leadership Team in February to learn more…

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Operations

May 24, 2018

Brown is the new ‘green’ as South Plant becomes a major local source of renewable biofuels

Purified renewable natural gas produced at South Treatment Plant in Renton is now a clean diesel alternative for local commercial trucks. Each year, the volume of renewable natural gas produced at the South Treatment Plant is the energy equivalent of…

Community Operations

May 24, 2018

Public tours resume at the West Point Treatment Plant

Welcome to West Point this summer! If you’re curious about how water systems work, or if you’d like to learn about the things you can do every day to help protect water quality, sign up for a Saturday tour or…

Community Operations

April 19, 2018

The nose shouldn’t know you live near South Treatment Plant. But if you smell something, we’re all ears

While it doesn’t smell like roses inside a wastewater treatment plant, we put lot of effort into making sure our plants are good neighbors. But when fugitive odors jump the fence line? We want to hear from you.

People

April 5, 2018

Creating pipelines to future careers

Most high school students don't realize the variety of jobs -- from engineers and financial analysts to electricians -- that are needed to keep our water clean. We recently hosted over 50 high school students at a Careers in Clean…

Operations People

April 2, 2018

Using virtual reality to train staff, pass on know-how

Cross-posted from KC Employee News Virtual reality is not just for gamers! King County is using HoloLens technology to capture work processes, take advantage of institutional knowledge and enhance staff training using Mixed and Virtual Reality. In a pilot project with Microsoft and…

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Community

March 28, 2018

Go salmon! WaterWorks grant supports Finn Hill Neighborhood’s work to protect Denny Creek

A sense of mission and a small grant can go a long way. Finn Hill Neighborhood Alliance’s rain water harvesting project in Kirkland earned a $15,000 grant through King County's WaterWorks Program to protect Denny Creek, an important salmon-bearing stream.

Infrastructure Water Quality

March 2, 2018

Construction underway on the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station Project

At a ceremonial groundbreaking on March 1, we joined the community to celebrate the start of construction on a $262 million project that will address an ongoing source of water pollution in the Duwamish River, and reflect neighborhood priorities around…

Clean Water Stories

from King County

Industrial Waste Fees for Surcharge Customers

Updating Industrial Waste Fees: Next Steps

Wastewater employees’ hard work saves ratepayers $32 million

Employee engagement, health and well-being

Chief Operating Officer meets with treatment plant employees

Brown is the new ‘green’ as South Plant becomes a major local source of renewable biofuels

Public tours resume at the West Point Treatment Plant

The nose shouldn’t know you live near South Treatment Plant. But if you smell something, we’re all ears

Creating pipelines to future careers

Using virtual reality to train staff, pass on know-how

Go salmon! WaterWorks grant supports Finn Hill Neighborhood’s work to protect Denny Creek

Construction underway on the Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station Project

Clean Water Stories

from King County

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