Alderwood Water District

Alderwood Water District Drinking Water Report Info
We buy your consuming water from the City of Everett. The water comes from Spada Reservoir, positioned on the headwaters of the Sultan River about 30 miles east of Everett. The Spada Reservoir, created in 1964 in partnership with the Snohomish County PUD, holds about 50 billion gallons of water.From Spada Reservoir, the water travels thru a pipeline to the City of Everett Treatment facility on the Chaplain Reservoir. Chaplain Reservoir is ready eight miles downstream from Spada Reservoir and holds approximately 4.5 billion gallons of water.Spada Reservoir is in the Sultan Basin Watershed. A watershed is a geographic area where all precipitation drains right into a single frame of water. In the Sultan Basin Watershed, rain and snow soften from the Cascade Mountains flow into Spada Reservoir. The Sultan Basin Watershed covers a place of approximately 84 square miles and is one of the wettest watersheds at the west facet of the Cascade Mountains. The common rainfall is ready one hundred sixty five inches, or five instances our neighborhood rainfall. To defend the evidently pristine water in Spada Reservoir, water best within the Sultan Basin is cautiously monitored..