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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 6, 1995
95-192
CONTACT:
Steve Loftness,(360) 407-6060
Maura O'Brien,(206) 649-7249
Renee Guillierie,(360) 407-6159 or Pager (360) 534-8589
ECOLOGY GRANTS $1.3 MILLION FOR REDMOND SEWAGE PLANT CLEANUP
OLYMPIA, WA -- The Washington Department of Ecology has awarded a $1,334,826 grant to the King County Department of Metropolitan Services (Metro) to clean up the former Lake Hills Sewage Treatment Plant in Redmond.
The grant will cover some of the costs of cleaning up the site, including digging out contaminated sediment from sludge storage lagoons for proper disposal and restoring wetlands. Samples of sediments and shallow soils at the site show contamination by PCBs and mercury. The facility used mercury to lubricate and cushion the rotational mechanisms in the trickling filter distribution systems. The cleanup is planned to run from summer 1996 to winter 1996-7.
The Lake Hills Sewer District built the plant in the 1950s, and Metro operated it from 1964 until it closed in 1973. The City of Bellevue owned the site from 1973 to 1979. Metro and Bellevue will jointly conduct the cleanup with this grant award. The King County Office of Open Space bought the site in 1994; and after cleanup it will be added to Marymoor Park.
The grant will cover approximately 40 percent of the costs eligible for grant funding. The funds come from Ecology's Local Toxics Control Account, money generated by state taxes on toxic substances.
Copyright © Washington State Department of Ecology. See http://www.ecy.wa.gov/copyright.html.
