According to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, 13,000 gallons of untreated wastewater were accidentally released into Puget Sound earlier this week.
“On June 17, crews were replacing a flow control gate near the 63rd Avenue Pump Station in West Seattle. Around 10 a.m., they discovered that another gate — used to isolate upstream flow — was leaking. As a result, untreated wastewater was released into Puget Sound through the pump station’s offshore emergency outfall,” the county Wastewater Treatment Division told KIRO 7.
Crews stopped the leak by 11:30 a.m. that day and repairs have been underway…