Pacific pump station replacement

Completed winter 2007

New Pacific wastewater pump station.


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To protect public health and the environment and to ensure safe and reliable operations, the Wastewater Treatment Division determined that the Pacific Pump Station needed to be replaced.

The 30-year-old pump station was an underground facility east of Tacoma Boulevard North in the unpaved First Avenue Northwest public right-of-way (see map). The pump station was approaching the end of its useful service life and needed to be expanded to convey increased wastewater flows from the City of Pacific to the South Treatment Plant in Renton.

King County replaced the facility with a new aboveground pump station. The new pump station is on Frontage Road near the Custom Iron Works building. A new sewer pipe was built in the First Avenue Northwest public right-of-way. It crosses under the Interurban Trail and connects to the existing sewer underneath Tacoma Boulevard North.

Schedule

The project began construction in fall 2004 was complete in early 2007.

For more information

• Project Update, December 2006 (PDF, 192KB)
• Project Update, July 2005 (PDF, 111KB)
• Project Update, May 2003 (PDF, 127KB)
• Pacific Pump Station, December 1999 (PDF, 676 KB)
  This study evaluates King County's existing Pacific Pump Station, located within the City of Pacific, and related conveyance system components, and identifies improvements needed to convey the projected increasing basin flows.
  Source: Conveyance System Improvements Program.