Raw Sewage in Puget Sound?
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You may not be aware that many jurisdictions in the Puget Sound dump raw sewage into the Sound. I’ve written about that problem in Sewage and Salmon. Click on the link above to get some additional background.
HB 1365 Improving Puget Sound water quality attempts to addresses the problem.
From the Bill Summary for the 2nd Substitute Bill
Requires operators of municipal wastewater systems to report annually on each discharge of untreated sewage, partially treated sewage, or mixtures of untreated stormwater and sewage into the Puget Sound.
Requires the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to produce and publicize an annual summary report of these discharges and of treated discharges.
Directs Ecology to continue providing technical and financial assistance to municipal wastewater treatment facilities, and to make annual grants with available appropriated funds to reduce nutrient discharges into the Puget Sound.
This is a good first step to resolving this problem. We know that untreated sewage is being dumped into the Puget Sound, but we don’t have a good metric of the actual size and scope of the problems.
The funding for grants could help treatment facilities to start to address their dumping issues.
Please Testify PRO on HB 1365.
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