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Leak found & repaired on Sand Road, just north of Smith Road. Will need to revisit and replace under the road. You shoul...
08/15/2026

Leak found & repaired on Sand Road, just north of Smith Road. Will need to revisit and replace under the road. You shouldn't be seeing any water in the ditches this time of year..

A second leak was found on the north side of Mount Baker Highway just before descending to the Nooksack Bridge. Again we...
06/11/2026

A second leak was found on the north side of Mount Baker Highway just before descending to the Nooksack Bridge. Again we saw signs of water this winter, but nothing definitive. We even used our new leak detector listening device to search the area to no avail. We dug a small hole by hand and kept an eye on it. Then again in the end of may, the owner called saying the field to the west was very muddy and a 4 square foot area just east of the hole was mushy. In this case, it went sideways as we weren't sure where the main was as well as the service line going under the highway. Therefore, when we dug up the line, we pulled it off the main line. Since the saddle was ok, we were able to replace the shutoff and keep looking for the rest of the service line and leak. We found that the service line was tied into the old service line that was still connected to the old main. The connection was over 6 feet deep to go under the highway and that's why we didn't hear anything. We removed the old lines and connected poly under the highway to the main with new poly. the connection from the old copper line to the poly under the road was the source of the leak.

Leak: South side of Mt Baker Highway, just east of Kelly Road in the latter part of May. I had seen water pooling during...
06/11/2026

Leak: South side of Mt Baker Highway, just east of Kelly Road in the latter part of May. I had seen water pooling during the winter, but no sign of a leak. Then reading meters in May, there it was, bubbling up now. It turned out the service line (poly) had cracked.

06/05/2026

If you don't receive emails from us when we send out notifications, but instead get it in the mail, it's because we don't have your email address. If you don't think we have it, could you please email [email protected] saying you are updating your email address. Also, could you update your phone number also. Thanks

05/19/2026

We will be shutting off the mainline on the Mount Baker Highway for a couple of hours to fix a major leak.

02/27/2026

2026 MOUNT BAKER ANNUAL MEETING SUMMARY

1)Financial Status – We have approximately $290,000 in the Bank Accounts/CD’s. 2025 was a year where we spent more than we brought in. The main reason was that we had to replace the River Well pump and a check valve that cracked.

2)We are continually searching for leaks in the system and hope everyone keeps an eye out for anything that looks out of place. We repaired 3 large leaks last year; the check valve at the river well, a service line on smith road and a leak at the meter on smith road, and we currently think we have 1 or 2 small leaks that we are searching for. We purchased a leak detector and are getting it fine tuned to search for leaks.

3)Water Judication with the Department of Health – The association is taking care of this process and we currently have our attorney reviewing our information for each well. When that is done, we will submit it to DOH. If anybody has a private well that they are using for animals or gardens, then they need to fill out the information for that well. This will be a long drawn out process lasting for years. We believe we have very solid water rights. Most likely, those affected, would be recent well owners and farmers. We will keep everyone posted on the process.

4)Bad water Samples – As we previously stated, we had 2 bad water samples at the end of 2025, September at the Allison Sample Station and November at the South Sand sample Station. These are positive for Total Coliform (dirt) and NOT E.COLI. We proceeded to check the system and report to the DOH. We were notified that if we had another bad sample within 12 months, we would have to chlorinate the system. We had that 3rd bad sample this month at the Allison sample station. We are trying to be proactive with searching for leaks, and we are looking for a company to look at the well casing to see if they think we might need to replace it. We treated the system with chlorine and flushed the lines after this last bad sample and investigative samples from the well and each sample station were taken Monday and they all came back negative for coliform. Hopefully the DOH will give us some time to find and fix our problem

5)Elections – Robert Haught (President) was re-elected for 3 more years

02/13/2026

Our Annual Meeting is Tuesday, not Wednesday, the 24th

02/11/2026

We had another bad sample, so we are going to chlorinate the tanks tomorrow and flush the system Friday.

11/18/2025

Since we had a bad sample, we will be chlorinating the system. It will not be a full-strength treatment. We will then flush the system this weekend. The sample was positive for coliform (dirt) and NOT E.coli. The water is safe to drink.

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Bellingham, WA
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