Gardening tips, plant sale, information and tours offered at South Plant event, Oct. 18

Note to the news media: Tours of King County’s WaterWorks Gardens Park, focusing on its innovative natural stormwater treatment system, will be offered at 11:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m.

Visit a demonstration greenhouse garden, learn about innovative stormwater treatment and get plant advice from Master Gardener volunteers at a free public event hosted by King County’s Wastewater Treatment Division on Saturday, Oct. 18.

Featured activities include a Master Gardener clinic and plant sale, tips on natural yard care and composting, and tours of a reclaimed water demonstration greenhouse garden. County employees will also offer tours of WaterWorks Gardens Park, highlighting its innovative stormwater treatment wetlands. Light refreshments will be served.

The event runs from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the South Treatment Plant, 1200 Monster Road S.W., Renton.  Visitors should enter the plant campus via the Southwest 7th Street entrance, located at the intersection of Oakesdale Ave. SW and SW 7th Street in Renton.

Directions to the South Treatment Plant are available on the Web at http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/directions/.

For more information or to arrange reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, please call 206-684-1403 or 711 (TTY).

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Note to editors and reporters: Visit the WTD Newsroom, a portal to information for the news media about the Wastewater Treatment Division, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks: http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/newsroom/.

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King County Wastewater Treatment Division