Community members invited to May 24 open house on Hidden Lake sewer project construction

People seeking information about construction on an upcoming sewer improvement project are invited to an open house to meet King County project staff, get project updates and have their questions answered.

Construction on the King County’s Hidden Lake Sewer Improvement Project will get underway in June. The work will include replacing the aging Hidden Lake Pump Station to provide better service to local residents, and adding an underground storage pipe in Boeing Creek Park to better handle the volume of sewage from the area, especially during storms.

In addition, the county will replace 12,000 feet of the Boeing Creek trunk sewer and 5,000 feet of water mains for Seattle Public Utilities.

The project will improve system reliability and protect public health and the environment by reducing overflows into Puget Sound.

The open house is scheduled from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at Sunset Elementary School, 17800 10th Ave. N.W., Shoreline.

Additional information about the Hidden Lake Sewer Improvement project is available on the Web at http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/projects/hiddenlake.htm

People can also contact Jennifer Kauffman at 206-263-6029, or Relay Service 711, for more information about the meeting or to request reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities.

King County's Wastewater Treatment Division protects public health and water quality by serving 17 cities, 17 local sewer utilities and more than 1.4 million residents in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Formerly called Metro, the regional clean-water agency now operated by King County has been preventing water pollution for 40 years.