10M gallons of partly untreated wastewater discharged in Everett
EVERETT — An Everett treatment plant discharged into the Snohomish River earlier this month almost 10 million gallons of wastewater that didn’t meet disinfection standards.
But as the state Department of Ecology investigates, city officials don’t expect significant impact to people, animals or the ecosystem. That’s because the wastewater went through every other step of treatment, said Jeff Marrs, Everett’s public works operations superintendent, who oversees the plant.
The grit and grime had been filtered, the feces separated, the scum scraped. Microbes chewed through their fill of crud.
This wasn’t “raw sewage” getting dumped into the river, Marrs said.
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