Heavy Rain in King County, Washington

Heavy Rain February 9, 2017 · King County, Washington

$33.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Heavy rain and storm runoff damaged the West Point sewage treatment plant in Seattle. King county dumped an estimated 235 million gallons of untreated wastewater - including 30 million gallons of raw sewage - into Puget Sound because of damage to the plant. The plant could not perform full wastewater treatment as required by the state permit until May 9th, as reported by the Seattle Times.

The wider storm

Heavy rainfall in the Puget Sound area lead to high storm runoff.

Began near Fremont (47.6620, -122.4313).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 689681. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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