High staff turnover and insufficient training are long-standing problems at the West Point Treatment Plant, where human error contributed to a catastrophic flood this year.
A contractor hired to investigate February’s catastrophic flood at the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle found inadequate training, lack of redundant treatment capacity and...
A King County risk-management official says one insurer will cover the first $25 million and is confident the seven carriers that provide the next tier...
The region’s largest wastewater-treatment plant is back in environmental compliance, King County officials say.
Multiple failures led to a catastrophic flood at the wastewater plant in February. Learn how the plant operates and just where those failures occurred.
It was a disaster years in the making. A cascade of errors led to catastrophe at King County's workhorse wastewater plant. Sheer luck spared workers’...
Mechanical systems at the region’s largest wastewater-treatment plant have been repaired after the flood Feb. 9.
There has been little response from environmentalists since the region’s largest wastewater-treatment plant was disabled in a catastrophic flood last month, though it continues to...
The county department that runs West Point wastewater-treatment plant already did a preliminary investigation of the Feb. 9 disaster, but the council launched an additional,...
Key to getting the West Point wastewater treatment plant working again will be the health of a suite of microbial life that handles much of...