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Tacoma sues over planned wastewater treatment requirements that could cost $1 billion


Tacoma sues over planned wastewater treatment requirements that could cost $1 billion
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.
3/14/2021
Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Mar. 14 Tacoma has sued the state Department of Ecology over proposed requirements for wastewater treatment plants that discharge to Puget Sound, a new regulation the city said could cost up to $1 billion to implement.
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The lawsuit is over a draft permit Ecology has developed to control excess nutrients, which the agency has said flow from those plants to Puget Sound and hurt the environment.
Ecology s stated intention is that the General Permit shall apply to nearly 60 domestic wastewater treatment plants discharging into Puget Sound, the lawsuit said. Each of these plants is already required by the CWA (Clean Water Act) to discharge pursuant to an individual NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit. ....

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