Just Wondering April 29, 2021 (10:01 pm)
I am confused. A 100 year old sewer pipe breaks; it’s near the bottom of Bonair pretty close to its junction with Alki; 1600 gallons of sewage gets to Puget Sound…. how?Leak discovered when “water” was seen running down Bonair… 1600 gallons of “sewage “ ran down the street level of Bonair… and jumped the curb of Alki… and ran down the steps off Alki to the Sound???Or did an underground river of sewage run from the leak location (several hundred feet from the Alki sea wall)… and seep into the Sound???… through the sea wall???I really don’t understand how a break in a sewer line a fair distance from Puget Sound gets sewage into the Sound… when there is no pipeline connection to the Sound from the Bonair sewer line.
The sign’s still up at Bonair/Alki, one day after
Seattle Public Utilities reported a sewer overflow into Puget Sound. The warning zone is at the easternmost end of the beach – it covers “water activities” for about 600 feet in either direction. Today SPU spokesoerson
Sabrina Register told WSB the amount of spilled sewage is estimated at about 1,655 gallons. And a pump station was not involved, she said – rather, “An initial assessment shows structural failure (a collapsed mainline) on nearly 100-year-old infrastructure.” SPU work crews were seen in the area earlier today:
Thanks to
Chas Redmond for that photo. We’ll check on the repair plasn tomorrow; SPU has said the warning signage will remain in place until water sampling shows it’s safe.
Gretchen, co-proprietor of Admiral District restaurant
Circa. She emailed us today to say, “Got to work today and someone had painted our 3 huge recycle, compost & garbage bins in their bright, fresh, original colors. They’d been tagged with graffiti many times and looked terrible. No idea who did this, if it was the city or an amazing Good Samaritan??? Did it happen anywhere else?” Since
Seattle Public Utilities crews do indeed do some painting over graffiti vandalism, we asked SPU spokesperson
Sabrina Register if that includes solid-waste containers. She replied, “Our contractors will paint out graffiti or replace the dumpster entirely. They do this on a rotating basis throughout the City.” (Contractors =