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West Point Treatment Plant has been busy lately receiving truckloads of special deliveries. The giant packages contain the solution to a problem that has plagued the plant for decades.
The pumps that push wastewater through West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle are massive and old. In service since 1993, it was time for a tune-up. By tapping into the expertise of local repair shops, the project was fast tracked…
The Duwamish River has many sides to it – industrial corridor, habitat for migrating salmon, ancestral waters for the people who have long inhabited its shores and waters. Two local artists have been commissioned to capture the complexity of the…
If you live, play, work, or drive on Mercer Island, or if you live or recreate near Enatai Beach Park or Mercer Slough, you will see our construction activities over the next few years.
There’s a lot of construction work planned for the Redmond area in the next few years. One of these projects is King County’s Lake Hills/NW Lake Sammamish Sewer Upgrade. King County needs to upgrade a regional sewer pipe that is…
King County’s Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station (WWTS) has earned the coveted “Platinum” rating from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision rating system. This is the first Platinum-awarded Envision project in Washington and recognizes the County’s commitment to sustainable communities…
Wastewater Engineers Semhar Abraha, Samayyah Williams and Sammy Wood (not pictured) help track the equipment at our West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle. The information and photos they collected goes into our database which helps us know what needs to…
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…
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,…