The Lakehaven Water and Sewer District, based in Federal Way, was fined over $85,000, said the Department of Ecology in a news release on Tuesday.
The department said the district’s Redondo Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Des Moines, polluted Cold Creek on three days in 2022.
“Heavy rains coinciding with high tides at the Lakehaven Water and Sewer District’s Redondo wastewater treatment plant caused incompletely treated wastewater to flow into Cold Creek,” said the Department of Ecology.
Cold Creek flows into Poverty Bay and the pollution led to the closure of around 68 acres of the bay’s shellfish beds. The closure is still in effect.
The department said the early 2022 incidents
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