PUD Crews Working For You This Summer – Everett Post

The summer season means that not only are the road workers doing a number of road maintenance and improvement projects, but Snohomish County’s PUD as well. In the summer, their crews can carry out electrical system improvements and preventive maintenance projects before the coming winter season.

Projects to improve the electrical system include the construction of the new Twin City substation in Stanwood to replace the North Stanwood substation and increase power reliability for Camano Island and Stanwood. In addition, the crews will install two new underground feeder circuits to power the new Northpoint development in the Smokey Point area.

The crews will also be relocating the infrastructure to serve the new Lake Stevens Costco. Another project involves installing a new transformer at the Paine Field substation that will help better serve both residential and industrial customers in the area.

PUD teams will extend fiber optic lines from the North Alderwood Substation to the Swamp Creek Switching Station, requiring nightly taxi delays on I-5 and I-405. In Monroe, crews will extend fiber optic lines from the PUD community office to the Qualco bio fermenter before installing a new PUD power generator on site.

Summer maintenance involves replacing hundreds of aging pylons and replacing dozens of aging underground cables. In Edmonds, the crews will be relocating the transmission and distribution towers along 76th Avenue West to help with a road improvement project.

The PUD’s vegetation management will have a dozen teams throughout the summer cutting trees across the coverage area. During a typical summer, the PUD prunes trees nearly 450 miles of racetrack to improve performance reliability.

So this summer, not only should you be driving slowly through construction zones, but also areas where PUD crews work. The road and PUD crews are all working to meet your highway and power needs. Safe driving saves lives.