County Wastewater Treatment Department Tackles Seattle’s High Runoff Flows in Environmentally Sound Fashion

A wet-weather treatment station in Washington’s King County will help control CSOs and furthers a wide range of sustainability goals.

County Wastewater Treatment Department Tackles Seattle’s High Runoff Flows in Environmentally Sound Fashion

When completed, the wet weather station will handle up to 70 mgd of combined stormwater and wastewater that would otherwise run into the Duwamish River.

A new wet-weather treatment station in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood won’t be completed until late 2022, but it has already won a Platinum Achievement Award for Sustainability from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision rating system.

The station will...

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