Water Quality

Your drinking water meets all standards. 

Supplying you and your family with safe and reliable drinking water is our highest priority. Along with supporting public health, maintaining water quality enhances our quality of life, supports the region’s economy, and protects natural resources. 

To accomplish this, our water testing goes beyond the basic regulations. For example, federal rules require that we test our water supply for more than 80 regulated contaminants and more than 50 unregulated chemicals. We do this to make sure we meet the regulations, even when these chemicals don’t exist in our water. We also take weekly samples from throughout our water distribution system to check for bacteria and proper chlorine levels. While the Washington State Department of Health requires us to take 150 samples per month, we routinely take more than 200. 

Questions? 

For more information about water quality, call 253-502-8207, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you have a water quality concern after hours or on a weekend, please call 253-502-8344.