SEAW Seattle Chapter’s April Dinner Meeting - Annual Joint Meeting with ASCE Seattle
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) and King County are working together to build an underground storage tunnel to improve water quality in three important water bodies in Seattle. During large storm events, the 2.7-mile-long storage tunnel will capture and temporarily hold polluted stormwater and sewage from Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford, and Queen Anne until the contents can be sent to King County’s West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant in Magnolia. When operational in 2027, the project will limit overflows and will keep an average of more than 75 million gallons of raw sewage and polluted stormwater out of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, Salmon Bay, and Lake Union. The tunnel was excavated with a large tunnel boring machine, Mudhoney, and construction included over 15,000 precast concrete tunnel segments, five deep, large diameter drop shafts, numerous underground structures, and a 12-million gallon per day pump station.
Join us for an overview of this 13-year long megaproject and a discussion of the successes, challenges, and lessons learned to date from the Ship Canal Water Quality Project!
Keith Ward, PMP, PE, Seattle Public Utilities – Keith Ward has more than 32 years of project-delivery and organizational leadership experience in the private and public sectors across the United States and internationally. He’s worked as an engineer, construction manager, project manager, and program director on a variety of infrastructure projects. Keith is the Project Executive of the Ship Canal Water Quality Project where he leads a team of City staff, consultants, and contractors. In his free time, Keith enjoys spending time with his family, sailing, and alpine climbing in the surrounding mountains.
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