8 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled into Ravenna Creek
So apparently over the last 10 days or so, King County has spilled about 8 million (total) gallons of sewage into Ravenna Creek (and then Lake Union/Lake Washington). This strongly impacts local ecology and recreational areas around here. The place impacted is at the Seattle Arboretum, and beautiful place to photograph wildlife and native vegetatio, and it will be impacted for a long time over this!
I am appalled at the County and their apparent negligence over this matter.
Mistake sends raw sewage into Ravenna Creek
By BRAD WONG
P-I REPORTERFrom the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An estimated 8 million gallons of raw sewage has poured into Ravenna Creek after county crews mistakenly diverted it into a Seattle storm drain, a King County spokeswoman said Saturday.The sewage has overflowed at a rate of 800,000 gallons a day for 10 days and likely went into Union Bay, county Wastewater Treatment Division spokeswoman Annie Kolb-Nelson said.
“We are committed to finding out what happened,” she said. “A spill of this level is unacceptable. We need to take steps to prevent this.”
