||| FROM DAN BURKE for EASTSOUND WATER |||
It has been too many days to count now that the Eastsound Water staff has been in emergency response mode – 24-hours a day. All-in-all, this set of storms has been the worst in recent memory from a water management view. As a result, we have been shutting off dozens of customer meters, mitigating property damage and trying to keep water flowing to all users across the island within the systems that we serve.
Your heroes are out there again today working general emergency response as this last freeze thaws, but also specifically on the Olga Water system who’s water supply has frozen solid. As a result, their storage tank has drawn down close to the bottom. As a precaution and a requirement, we sent out a “boil notice” to the Olga Water Users system.
We sent this “boil notice” directly to the customer of the Olga Water Users system. As an additional precaution we posted this same notice to The Orcasonian. Somewhere in translation, The Orcasonian added Doe Bay to the notice. We want to inform everyone that there is only an active boil notice within the Olga Water Users system, and a 21 home area in the Eastsound Water system on top of Buck Mountain. All other systems we manage are happy and healthy at this point due to the hard work and dillignece of the Eastsound Water staff.
Once again, there is no boil notice active in Doe Bay.
Thank you for your help with correcting this information. Please help spread the word.
A man can live 23 days without food, but only 3 days without Dan, (and crew).
Thank you guys… job well done.
I feel fortunate I can gather some clean, white snow!
On hikes along Cascade Creek, I can see a pipe leading off toward the Olga water tank. If this is what’s been frozen solid, it obviously needs to be undergrounded better, probably this summer. But is that the responsibility of the Olga water association or EWUA? I thought we were just doing maintenance for them.