King County Wastewater Treatment Division

As National Bike Month comes to a close, we want to thank everyone — including our four-legged friends 🐾 — who joined us on Bike Everywhere Day! Earlier this month, we hosted three stations, including one next to the East Lake Sammamish Trail in Redmond, where our Community Services team shared information and gathered feedback about the Sammamish Plateau Diversion Project. Learn about our sewer projects happening across King County at kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/waste-services/wastewater-treatment/capital-projects

Skilled trades. Real impact. Come be part of the team behind clean water.

We’re hiring:
🛠️ Industrial maintenance mechanics
🛠️ Industrial maintenance electricians
🛠️ Industrial instrument technicians

Apply at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/kingcounty?keywords=west%20point

Join our team at West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle, where your skills help keep critical infrastructure running and protect public health and Puget Sound every single day.

This is hands-on industrial work with:
✔ Competitive pay & benefits
✔ Opportunities to grow your trade
✔ Challenging, meaningful projects
✔ A skilled crew that takes pride in their work

If you’re ready to build a career that matters, we want to hear from you!

Annual checkups keep us healthy. And with corrosive wastewater + aging pipes, our sewer system needs checkups too!

That’s where our conveyance inspectors come in — with a robot sidekick. They drop into dark maintenance holes to inspect pipes, monitor conditions, and catch problems before they turn into major headaches.

Here's our crew working in City of Redmond, Washington -Government earlier this spring!

Read our latest blog to see how we keep our aging pipes free of gripes! https://kingcountywtd.com/2026/05/13/inside-the-pipes-that-keep-everything-flowing/

Traditional 15th anniversary gifts call for crystal. In the wastewater world, we’d say membrane filters! Built in 2011, our Brightwater Treatment Plant near Woodinville uses long, straw-like fiber membranes to remove bacteria, viruses, and micro-sized particles left after the secondary treatment process. The result? “Crystal” clean water! 💧

We’re now replacing the plant’s state-of-the-art membrane filtration system after it reached the end of its useful life. Thanks to the dedicated care and maintenance by our staff, the original system lasted five years longer than the manufacturer’s 10-year lifespan rating!

The new ultrafiltration membrane filters are even more efficient and advanced, allowing us to treat the same amount of water with just 14 cassettes instead of the original 20. Cassettes are large metal frames that hold thousands of membrane fibers. This upgrade will also allow us to clean even more water in the future without expanding the plant’s footprint.

We're so proud to introduce you to Julio Rodriguez, our new West Point Treatment Plant manager. Julio joined King County Wastewater Treatment Division in 2016 through the Operator-in-Training Program. After completing the program, he earned a position on one of West Point’s crews. He later advanced to Senior Operator and then Crew Supervisor. He was the first Operator-in-Training alum to become a supervisor! Now, with this latest promotion, Julio is the first OIT alum to serve as a plant manager. What an inspiration and congratulations, Julio!