EVERETT, Wash. — The City of Everett’s Public Works Department said anyone who gets their water off Transmission Line 5, will be in a temporary outage.
The work being done on the line installs a new bypass and valve in case of an emergency and around 100 or more businesses and homeowners are affected, starting at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday and lasting until Friday.
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Mark Sadler with Everett Public Works says Transmission Line 5 is one of the lines servicing south Snohomish County. He says mailers have been going out since last month.
“This is maintenance on a 50-year-old pipeline, and a 50-year-old valve that needs a redundant valve on a redundant parallel line to increase service and reliability of our transmission system,” Sadler said.
“If you’re going to be impacted by this, you should be prepared, have water storage for yourself for drinking water, and water for your animals, and hygiene and bathroom, etcetera."
Water service directly into the City of Everett will not be directly impacted.
“If you’re connected to a larger provider, say city of Snohomish, city of Monroe, Roosevelt or Highland district, you’ll have water storage, so you need to contact your water provider,” Sadler said.
Homeowner Jane Salo lives just off Highway 9 near Snohomish and told us she went to Fred Meyer and saw her neighbors stocking up.
“People were walking out with water jugs and bottled water, I figured I should too since those mailers went out,” Salo says.
Everett Public Works told KIRO 7 on Wednesday work was going as scheduled, with an estimated "turn-on" time of early Friday morning.
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