{"id":530,"date":"2016-04-28T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/?page_id=530"},"modified":"2024-01-30T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T21:35:45","slug":"fast-facts-about-pud-no-1-of-whatcom-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/about\/fast-facts-about-pud-no-1-of-whatcom-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Facts about Whatcom PUD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founded in 1937<\/strong><\/em>, the PUD has countywide authority in Whatcom County to supply water<\/strong> and electric<\/strong> services. \u00a0Eleven (11) other PUDs were formed in Washington State that same year.<\/p>\n

The PUD first provided electric service in 1953<\/strong> <\/em>to the General Petroleum Refinery.<\/p>\n

The PUD first provided water service in the early 1960\u2019s<\/strong><\/em>, beginning with an aluminum smelter company\u00a0 (Alcoa).<\/p>\n

The PUD provides administrative services to other agencies for electric, water and financial needs.<\/p>\n

Whatcom PUD does not<\/em> collect a portion of Whatcom County’s property tax.\u00a0 We are funded through private revenue – our customers.<\/p>\n

Learn more about our annual budget here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/the-commission\/financial-documents\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Annual total cash flow in 2024 estimated at $23,058,133 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whatcom PUD is governed under Revised Code of Washington Title 54 (RWC 54<\/a>).<\/div>\n
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Learn more about Washington State Public Utility Districts<\/a>\u00a0and Whatcom County at the\u00a0Bellingham\/Whatcom County Tourism<\/a>\u00a0sites.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
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Power<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • The PUD currently supplies one electrical customer and the PUD\u2019s two water intake plants an average of 27 MWh of energy purchased from Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).<\/li>\n
  • The PUD owns 15 miles of transmission\/distribution lines and 3 substations.<\/li>\n
  • The PUD’s electric system peak usage is 29.6 MWs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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    Water
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    \nWhatcom PUD operates and owns two water Water Treatment Plant Systems:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Provides industrial grade (non-potable) water to businesses and large industries at Cherry Point;<\/li>\n
    • Provides irrigation water to approximately 50 customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Potable (drinking) Water and Fire Protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      • The PUD owns this water system which provides potable and fire system water for a large light-industrial area at Grandview\/Interstate 5 in North Ferndale, WA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Total water treated\/delivered: 5.4 billion gallons per year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":510,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8146,"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/530\/revisions\/8146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pudwhatcom.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}