{"id":718835,"date":"2026-06-22T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:22:14","slug":"13000-gallons-of-wastewater-released-into-puget-sound-advisories-for-some-west-seattle-beaches-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718835\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 gallons of wastewater released into Puget Sound; advisories for some West Seattle beaches \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">SEATTLE \u2014 According to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, 13,000 gallons of untreated wastewater were accidentally released into Puget Sound earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">\u201cOn June 17, crews were replacing a flow control gate near the 63rd Avenue Pump Station in West Seattle. Around 10 a.m., they discovered that another gate \u2014 used to isolate upstream flow \u2014 was leaking. As a result, untreated wastewater was released into Puget Sound through the pump station\u2019s offshore emergency outfall,&#8221; the county Wastewater Treatment Division told KIRO 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Crews stopped the leak by 11:30 a.m. that day and repairs have been underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Public Health &#8211; Seattle &amp; King County is asking folks and pets to keep out of Cormorant Cove until 11:30 a.m. on June 24. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">The advisory was lifted for Constellation Park and Charles Richey Sr. Viewpoint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Public health officials have also directed King County to continue collecting samples to monitor water quality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph\">Learn more information and see the map of impacted areas <a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/wtd-incident-response\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/wtd-incident-response\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gdrPeS body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 According to the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, 13,000 gallons of untreated wastewater were accidentally released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-718835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}