State fines Everett $13K for incompletely treated wastewater
EVERETT — The state Department of Ecology fined Everett $13,000 for almost 10 million gallons of wastewater discharge that wasn’t completely treated in June.
Between June 4 and 5, the plant handled over 63 million gallons of mostly stormwater, as reported in The Daily Herald. Most of the treatment process happened normally, except for a 19-hour failure of the pump to inject sodium hypochlorite, which is similar to concentrated bleach and sanitizes the wastewater before it enters the Snohomish River.
That sent about 9.9 million gallons that wasn’t fully treated into the river.
The city’s wastewater permit requires Everett to immediately notify disinfection failures to the ecology department, state Department of Health’s Shellfish Program and the Snohomish Health District. But when the pump failed, the city did not report the issue until the morning of June 7 and did not collect a required sample to determine fecal coliform bacteria levels, according to Ecology.
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