City will pay $12,000 for sewage incident

The city will have to pay up for allowing nearly 300,000 gallons of untreated sewage to flow into Lake Washington in the Madison Park area. "Last April's sewer overflow was caused by the simultaneous failure of a number of systems, any one of which should have prevented the overflow from occurring," Seattle Public Utilities Director Chuck Clarke said. He vowed it would not happen again and said the utility will not appeal the $12,000 fine issued by the state Department of Ecology.