PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER

Official insights from Public Health – Seattle & King County staff

Public Health reopens Discovery Park beaches after West Point emergency bypass

July 22, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Public Health – Seattle & King County on Monday afternoon reopened North and South beaches at Discovery Park. These two beaches were closed Friday in an abundance of caution after a West Point sewage bypass into Puget Sound. Water quality tests conducted over the past three days have all come back under the state standard. […]

The poop-Loop scoop: How King County recycles waste and water

August 4, 2017.Reading time 5 minutes.

By Darrell Rodgers, PhD, Public Health – Seattle & King County Public health is committed to preventing disease and death from water-borne pathogens. Modern sanitation, including wastewater treatment, is key to keeping our waters clean and the people and animals that live here healthy. But the efficiency of modern sanitation creates an interesting problem. Today, […]