Seattle Post Intelligencer – Construction on King County’s Brightwater sewage-treatment plant is another six months behind schedule and could cost another $70 million more than last year’s cost estimates, according to an oversight report presented this week to the King County Council.
The $1.8 billion project north of Woodinville, just across the Snohomish County line, will treat 36 million gallons of wastewater per day from south Snohomish County and north King County when it opens.
The plant, already the focus of controversy over costs and litigation, is now expected to open in September 2011, instead of March. When the project first launched, it was expected to open in 2010. [read more...]







