Shelter Bay considering tapping Tribe for water supply

The Town of La Conner’s decision to install a single 16-inch pipe when it replaces the broken water main along La Conner Whitney Road this year provides excess capacity of 18 million gallons annually beyond what the Shelter Bay Community uses. The Community may decide it doesn’t want water from the Town at all.

Board of Directors President Anne Hays told the Weekly News that its March 2 response to the Town “stated the community is talking with the Swinomish Tribe to provide water from their system, which is much closer to the Community and can tie into our system at a higher location to deliv...