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EVERETT 2044 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 6/17/2025 <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />PUBLIC FACILITIES AND SERVICES ELEMENT <br /> Page 168 <br />Pollution Control Facility (WPCF). More details about the sewer system are included in the Sewer <br />Comprehensive Plan. <br />Surface Water Management <br />The City of Everett manages a surface water system, referred to herein as the Surface Water Service <br />Area, to protect and enhance the city’s surface waters. The service area includes more than 15,000 acres <br />comprising 23 major drainage basins in three watersheds. <br />The City of Everett’s Surface Water Management program consists of stormwater and surface water <br />quality compliance activities under the federal Clean Water Act, and enforcement of stormwater <br />municipal codes and standards applicable to lands in the city’s jurisdiction. The program works with <br />residents, businesses and property owners to reduce stormwater pollution, to promote private <br />stormwater management, and to protect rivers, streams, and lakes. <br />Everett identifies and prioritizes stormwater and surface water improvements through periodic updates <br />to the Surface Water Comprehensive Plan, which addresses capital improvement projects, ongoing <br />maintenance, and compliance programs that are funded by monthly stormwater utility charges to <br />property owners and stormwater system development charges to developments. <br />The Surface Water Comprehensive Plan uses a watershed-based approach to characterizing 23 drainage <br />basins. Issues were identified and prioritized with solutions proposed through a 10-year capital <br />improvement program. The city set five goals to guide the development of the Surface Water <br />Comprehensive Plan: <br />• Maintain regulatory compliance, including state and federal stormwater discharge regulations. <br />• Improve surface water quality. <br />• Reduce water flow impacts to, or caused by, City facilities. <br />• Maintain base flow; and <br />• Provide improvements to aquatic and riparian habitat within the city. <br />Everett provides public access to mapped pipes, ditches, catch basins, manholes, culverts, treatment <br />facilities, flow control facilities, and outfalls in an online viewer. <br />Electricity <br />The Snohomish County Public Utilities District (PUD) No. 1 provides electrical services to the Everett <br />planning area. This District which serves all of Snohomish County, is the largest public utility district in <br />Washington, and is 12th largest in the nation in terms of customers served. PUD #1 receives 84% of its <br />electrical power from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), 12% from green (wind and other <br />renewable sources) sources of energy, including the Jackson Hydroelectric Project, and 4% from <br />wholesale market purchases. The utility maintains over 6,300 miles of transmission and distribution <br />lines to serve its 330,000 customers. <br />Capacity assessments for the PUD No. 1 focus on analysis of “Normal Winter System Peak Demand”- the <br />largest amount of power the utility is called upon to deliver at any one time. The Normal System Peak <br />Demand is expected to rise from the 2014 level of 1383 megawatts to 1604 megawatts in 2032, an <br />increase of 16%.