MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A new water source is available to property owners in Skagit County.
A partnership between Seattle City Light and the state Department of Ecology is providing 340 property owners with a legal water source.
The Skagit Valley Herald says it has the capacity to provide water for about 1,000 more.
A spokesperson for Ecology says it doesn’t solve all of the water availability problems in the Skagit basin, but it is a huge step forward.
This is Ecology’s latest effort to provide legal water to property owners in the basin who were affected by the 2013 state Supreme Court ruling that put limits on instream flow to protect fish habitat.