Millions of gallons of raw sewage gushing into Puget Sound after emergency

Millions of gallons of sewage into Puget Sound

Millions of gallons of raw sewage are dumping into Puget Sound after an equipment failure at King County’s West Point Treatment Plant near Seattle’s Discovery Park.
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A shutdown occurred when too much incoming wastewater and stormwater -- during heavy rain and very high tides -- started to flood the plant at about 2 a.m. Thursday.

To protect the treatment plant from major flooding that could severely damage equipment, West Point is operating in emergency bypass mode -- meaning untreated sewage is being discharged through an outfall about three-quarters of a mile offshore and 240 feet deep in Puget Sound.

Since the failure, about an estimated 100 million gallons of raw untreated wastewater has gone into the Sound.

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