Low-income Seattle Public Utilities customers in and around White Center are eligible to get brand new, water-efficient toilets for FREE.
This free offer is open to all income-eligible customers (see table below) with older toilets, regardless of the customer’s age. In other words, you don’t have to be a senior to benefit.
Free installation is included.
Here’s a press release from the city:
Save water, save money, with high efficiency toilets
Seattle Public Utilities provides free toilets for low-income homeowners
In this economy, everyone is looking for ways to save money. One way is to reduce water use. Toilets are the biggest water-user in most homes. Replacing old toilets is an excellent way to reduce indoor water use.
According to Seattle Public Utilities, replacement of older toilets with high efficiency models can save a family of four up to 24,000 gallons of water and $140 each year.
“For some homeowners, the cost of replacing old toilets is prohibitive,” says Irene Stewart, director of the Seattle Mayor’s Office for Senior Citizens. “That’s why we’re collaborating with Seattle Public Utilities and Senior Services’ Minor Home Repair to provide low-income homeowners with free toilets. Toilets offered by Seattle Public Utilities flush well, help conserve water, and save homeowners money.”
If you meet the following criteria and income guidelines, you can qualify for free toilets and installation by a licensed professional plumber:
- You are a homeowner of any age with a Seattle Public Utilities account.
- You currently live in the home you own.
- Your existing toilets were manufactured before 1994.
- You meet income guidelines for your household size (examples below).
Household Size Annual Income Monthly Income 1 $ 28,560 $ 2,380 2 $ 37,344 $ 3,112 3 $ 46,140 $ 3,845 4 $ 54,924 $ 4,577 5 $ 63,708 $ 5,309 6 $ 72,492 $ 6,041 To sign up, or for more information, call Minor Home Repair at 206-448-5751 or e-mail UDP@seattle.gov.
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South-central White Center is drained by Miller Creek, which originates at Arbor Lake. Photo courtesy King County Parks.
South-central White Center is drained by Miller Creek, which originates at Arbor Lake at South 124th and 2nd Ave South (map below).
Miller Creek runs from Arbor Lake down through Burien and parts of SeaTac before emptying out into Puget Sound in Normandy Park.
An ad-hoc committee aimed at monitoring and studying both Miller and Walker Creeks is forming, with its inaugural workshop scheduled for Wed., Sept. 24, from 7pm – 8:30pm at the Burien Community Center, Classroom 5, located at 425 S.W. 144th Street.
At this workshop, participants will learn the answers to some of the following questions, and help provide answers to some other questions:
- How do we know about water quality, water quantity, and habitat conditions in Miller and Walker Creeks?
- What monitoring has been done in recent years?
- What monitoring is necessary to allow for analysis of trends?
- Can we better coordinate existing monitoring?
- What additional monitoring would we like to do in the future?
- And how are we going to use all the data that have been and will be collected? Five years from now, will monitoring give us the information we need to evaluate the health of these stream basins and make good decisions about future projects, programs, and policies?
Improving monitoring of water quality, water quantity, and habitat conditions is recommended in the Executive Proposed Miller and Walker Creeks Basin Plan. This workshop is intended to kick off an ad hoc committee effort to answer the questions listed above. Answering these questions will help everyone take better care of the land and water in the Miller and Walker Creek basins (basin boundary map).
The monitoring discussion is intended to produce recommendations on how local partners can conduct voluntary monitoring in the future. The outcome of this process will not affect the current monitoring for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as required by the Department of Ecology. The monitoring that has been and is being done by the Port of Seattle will be discussed, however, because it provides information on those portions of the creeks that flow through the airport property.
For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Dennis Clark, King County Public Outreach/Stewardship Coordinator, 206-296-1909.
Intrepid Reporter/Sales & Promotions Diva Janet Grella had a random encounter Thursday night with a TV Producer who was scouting a nearby beach for a production he’s working on.
Turns out that the production is all about sharks.
That live in Puget Sound.
About 10 miles from the heart of the Dub-C.
Big, Six-Gill Sharks (these ain’t Dogfish!) that grow up to 18 feet, as seen in this video:
The TV Producer, Vince Patton, who works for Oregon Public Broadcasting, explained the production via email:
The animal: The 6 Gill Shark. (Check Wikipedia for details. Their summary is accurate as I read it).
The Seattle Aquarium has an exhibit specifically on 6 Gill Sharks here.
Our show is “Oregon Field Guide” and we are shooting a story for OFG’s upcoming 20th anniversary season which begins in October. This story could run anytime between October and next spring.
The folks who sell Diving Tours with the Sharks on the boat you may see in the area are here.
The tours move around, depending on where they find the sharks hanging out. This year, it’s right near Des Moines. Dives happen at night. Yes, from 10pm to 5am. They have lots of lights set up on the shark cage where the divers go.
The 6 Gills have made the news in the Seattle area a few times since the late 90′s, but overall most of the public don’t know they’re here. They’re not aggressive to humans and there’s never been any human/shark incidents here.
So, next time you’re swimming in Puget Sound (ya right, at temps around 55 degrees! ha), and you hear a low, deep bass “da-duhm…” music sting, be sure to look closely, as you may see this friendly fella:
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