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When completed, the wet weather station will handle up to 70 mgd of combined stormwater and wastewater that would otherwise run into the Duwamish River.
A new wet-weather treatment station in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood won’t be completed until late 2022, but it has already won a Platinum Achievement Award for Sustainability from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision rating system.
The station will...