NE 155th Street Water Main Project 

Back in 2012, when the old Bingo Hall located at the intersection of 5th Avenue NE and NE 165th Street was being redeveloped, the developer was required to do several water system improvements to help get adequate fire flow to the property.

Those system improvements were already included our longer-term goals, however by proposing a shared cost arrangement with the developer, we were able to complete the improvements ahead of schedule, and best of all, at half the cost.

The result was the creation of a new pressure zone at the apex of the Ridgecrest Neighborhood, at the same time that we were already creating a similar new pressure zone at the apex of the North City Neighborhood—both classified as “615 pressure zones” because the water pressure is approximately 615 feet above mean sea level.

During those 2012 improvement efforts, several sections of the water main were upsized to 8″ along NE 155th Street, while other 6″ sections that were still in good shape remained.  Fast forward more than a decade, and we’re planning to upsize those remaining 6″ water mains on NE 155th Street, from 6th to 15th Avenues NE, and connect them to an existing large diameter north/south water main.  

Schedule: This project is currently under review; we expect to start construction on it later this summer.