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Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is a public utility agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, which provides water, sewer, drainage and garbage services for 1.3 million people in King County, Washington. [3] The agency was established in 1997, consolidating the city's Water Department with other city functions. [4]
The city of Seattle, Washington, is located on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washington on the east; water comprises approximately 41% of the total area of the city. [1] It was founded on the harbor of Elliott Bay , home to the Port of Seattle —in 2002, the 9th busiest port in the United States by TEUs of container ...
Seattle City Light: Hydroelectric Skookumchuck Dam: Thurston: Skookumchuck River: Skookumchuck Reservoir: Earthfill 1.0: 190 58 34,800 42,900 1970 TransAlta: Water supply South Fork Tolt River Dam: King: South Fork Tolt River: South Fork Tolt Reservoir: Earthfill 6.55: 200 61 57,900 71,400 1964 Seattle Public Utilities: Water supply Swift Dam ...
The reservoirs and pipeline infrastructure is owned and operated by Seattle Public Utilities. Public access is restricted and the area is managed as a wilderness in order to protect water quality. [5] Chester Morse Lake is the main storage reservoir of the Cedar River Watershed system. Pipelines route water to the Seattle area from Landsburg ...
Seattle Public Utilities is asking about 1.5 million customers in the Seattle area to use less water as drought conditions continue throughout most of the state. An unusually dry summer along with ...
Lake Youngs is a reservoir in King County, Washington, United States.It is located between Maple Valley and Renton along the route of pipelines carrying water from the Cedar River to Seattle (the most recent of these is the Bow Lake pipeline, which was built in 1954 [1] [2]) and is accessible only to Seattle Public Utilities staff and authorized visitors.
Seattle Public Utilities determined that the lake was still safe for swimming. The blockage was cleared by flushing the sewer lines, and the resulting odor was expected to end within two days. [5] The two lakes are the only body of water where Hydrilla (waterthyme), an invasive aquatic weed, has been found in the state of Washington. [6]
Rattlesnake Lake is part of the Rattlesnake Lake Recreation Area, which is owned and managed by Seattle Public Utilities as a non-development buffer to the protected municipal watershed lands. The watershed supplies 65% of the Seattle region’s unfiltered drinking water to nearly 800,000 people.