Wastewater

A rise in home testing and a decrease in disease severity has masked a large increase in COVID-19 infections in Oregon, but the state’s poop doesn’t lie.

Raw sewage dumps aren’t as rare as we’d like to think. And intense rain events -- which climate change will make more common -- could make these spills more necessary without infrastructure upgrades.

On Tuesday, King County released preliminary findings of what went wrong at the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant.

State environmental regulators allow a wastewater treatment utility to give its recycled sewer water to a group of home brewers so they can turn it into beer.