December 17, 2018 KING 5 News
6.2 million young chinook salmon dead after Pierce County power outage
Dec 19, 2018 KIRO 7 News
130,000 gallons of sewage spill into Puget Sound after power outage
Temporary King County status gets a report.
Routine status over at Penn Cove/Oak Harbor- newspeople remain silent.
Love to see newspeople get out and ask questions about why:
“This beach is within the closure area for a sewage treatment plant outfall and is unsafe for recreational shellfish harvesting.”
Sounds like the sewage treatment plant is sending unsafe product into Penn Cove?
As the months go by, we’ll watch and see how local conditions change. We’ll look for newspeople to ask public policy questions Re:
How long has Oak Harbor been an unsafe location for recreational shellfish harvesting?
If the state of the art sewage treatment plant went online last month- how was sewage being processed last summer or last year?
When did the sewage treatment plant project begin?
If the old sewage treatment system was failing- when did it begin to fail?
How long will it take for recreational shellfish harvest conditions to become safe related to sewage treatment plant outfall?
News links and documentation here:
Oak Harbor – State Of The Art Sewage Treatment Plant
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