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Spokane director reports 2024 combined-sewer overflow low; senior discount enrollment rises
Summary
Marlene Feist, the director presenting the monthly report, told the Spokane Transportation Commission that the city’s combined sewer overflow system recorded one overflow in 2024 that released about 112,000 gallons to the river.
Marlene Feist, the director presenting the monthly report, told the Spokane Transportation Commission that the city’s combined sewer overflow system recorded one overflow in 2024 that released about 112,000 gallons to the river.
Feist said the system’s tanks and interceptor-protection storage captured nearly 72,000,000 gallons of combined stormwater and wastewater in 2024, and she contrasted those volumes with the city’s wastewater treatment plant, which processes roughly 11,000,000,000 gallons a year. “So what's the comparison of our 112,000 gallons? About 2 seconds of river flow,” Feist said, adding that November 2024 produced unusually heavy rain and was the wettest November since…
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