8-9-2018
SEATTLE, Wash. — Washington State issued just over $118,000 in fines for King County after finding more than two dozen sewer-overflow violations.
The Seattle Times reports the state Department of Ecology found twenty-seven cases of wastewater discharge exceeding pollutant limits, five instances of unpermitted overflows and other permit issues in 2016 and early 2017.
The department says most of the violations involved discharges that had more chlorine than allowed, caused by problems at one of the four special combined sewer treatment plants.