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 A Stormtrooper sits on a ledge above the engine room at the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle, WA.
Disposable wipes – which are not flushable! – are one of the most common headaches that our King County treatment plant operators face. But what ends up at the plants gets way weirder than that. Staff have assembled a trophy collection of items that have caused mischief, jamming up and breaking equipment. They are an unsettling reminder of all that can go wrong with a careless flush.
Read about it here.
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 King County Executive Dow Constantine tours the South Lake Union campus where one of the nation’s first sewer heat recovery projects will use heat from wastewater as a renewable energy source.
Can sewer heat be a renewable energy? You bet! WTD is helping prove the potential of using heat from the County sewer system as a valuable resource for heating and cooling large buildings – saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. One of the first projects of its kind is kicking off with a major commercial developer in South Lake Union. This summer, crews cut and connected to a 100-year-old pipe on Dexter Ave. N, and now the technology has been installed.
Read the news release.
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 Brightwater operator Andre Brown and a Violia field service representative install new membrane filters.
What do whales and wastewater treatment have in common? A project at Brightwater Treatment Plant will replace the plant’s state-of-the-art filtration system for the first time since 2011. The membranes, which can look like whale baleen, filter out particles as small as viruses and bacteria from wastewater before the clean water is piped to Puget Sound. Stacked end to end, the 17 million membranes would stretch around the entire Earth! Read more about this rare and delicate work happening at Brightwater over next three years.
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Cooking this holiday season? Pouring fats, oils or grease (also known as “FOG") down the drain can cause clogs and blockages in your household pipes and the wastewater system we all use and pay for. Properly dispose of FOG by putting it in a container and throwing it away with the trash.
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