King County invites community to celebrate Lincoln Park sewer project completion on June 3

To thank community members for their patience during a three-month emergency sewer repair project in West Seattle's Lincoln Park, King County will host a neighborhood event in Lincoln Park at picnic shelter No. 3 on Saturday, June 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

People can meet Wastewater Treatment Division staff, enjoy refreshments, check out project-related park improvements, and learn more about the division's mission to protect water quality and create resources from the wastewater it treats each day.

In late April, King County completed a project that began in February to replace more than a mile of aging sewer line running through the park after it was damaged by heavy rains and high flows last winter, causing two short-term sewage leaks in the park and Puget Sound.

After construction, King County worked with City of Seattle Parks and Recreation on a number of projects to restore and improve the park, just in time for warm spring weather.

Additional information about the project can be found on the Web at http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/projects/westseattle/index.htm or by calling John Phillips, community relations planner, at 206-263-6543 or 711 TTY.

People enjoy clean water and a healthy environment because of King County's wastewater treatment program. The 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 more than 40 years.