West Seattle utility-work alert: Early warning of possible waterlessness for a day or two or three next month

If you live along 36th or 37th SW between SW Brandon and SW Morgan, you should get that alert in your postal mail today or Monday, says Seattle Public Utilities, which wants to make sure you know about a big but relatively brief project that might affect your water service at some point March 11th, 12th, and/or 13th, and mailed the notice to “the project area” on Friday. Depending on what they find, it might just be a prelude to something even bigger. But at least you have five weeks now to plan ahead. (If you can’t see/scroll through the notice above, here’s the PDF version.)

4 Replies to "West Seattle utility-work alert: Early warning of possible waterlessness for a day or two or three next month"

  • Cindi Barker February 7, 2015 (12:12 pm)

    Be opportunistic! Use this notice to stock up or rotate your emergency water supply, 1 gallon per person per day for AT LEAST 3 days. That’s what I’m going to do, time to rotate out.

  • sam-c February 7, 2015 (1:33 pm)

    wow! what do they expect you to do? get a hotel room for a few days?
    I guess practicing as if it is a real emergency is one way…wait to use the facilities until you get to school/ work every day?

  • sophista-tiki February 7, 2015 (3:16 pm)

    You can flush your toilet with a bucket of water. Not everyone is completely helpless without 24/7 utility consumption.

  • Mike February 7, 2015 (8:31 pm)

    Although I’m not in the impacted area, it’s great that WSB is providing this notice to a wider audience. Hopefully those impacted will be prepared and not be stuck wondering what happened. If you know people in that area, share this blog article so they do know. Like Cindi Barker stated, great time to rotate your emergency supplies. If you don’t have that, great time to stock up. Water is cheap to stock at home. Get enough for you and your family, maybe even for some neighbors that don’t have resources to get their own all the time (elderly, disabled, etc.).
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    Be Prepared, you’ll be fine.

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