Custer Water Association has received many questions about the water adjudication for the Nooksack WRIA 1 area. Custer Water Association can not offer legal advice and thus all information contained herein is our understanding/opinion and is not legal advice and does not carry any warranties. We are not lawyers; please consult a lawyer as needed.
It is our understanding that if you only use water from a water system, such as Custer Water Association, you do not need do not need to complete this form. Custer Water Association already has legal water rights for our wells and reports the amount pumped from the wells to the department of ecology. If an association is your ONLY source of water, you may discard the summons.
However, if you use water from any other source, you are required to complete this form in accordance with the instructions. For example: If your house is supplied by Custer Water Association, but you water your field or garden from an old well; you would be required to fill out this water adjudication form. If you use any surface (lake, pond, creek, etc) or ground water (well, etc), you legally should report this usage to maintain your water rights. If you don't report a water source that you use, the state may decide you can't legally use that source in the future or limit usage from that source to the amount you report.
Again, this is NOT legal advice, but rather our understanding of the situation which may be incorrect. The information herein does not offer any expressed or implied warranties, but is rather our opinion of the situation. If you have any questions, these are legal questions, and we can not offer legal advice. Please consult a lawyer.
Custer Water Association
CWA will be having the annual meeting November 11th, 2024
When: Monday, November 11th, 2024
Where: ** Custer United Methodist Church**
2996 Main St. Custer
When: 7:00pm
Please Attend – There’s information to share and your input is valuable
to the future of the Association.
Updates include recent system upgrades, Dept. of Ecology Nooksack
Water Adjudication, EPA Lead Service Line Inventory and new
accounting firm.
Hope to see you there,
Board Members of the Custer Water Association
Custer Water will be performing a system flush this Saturday (8/10). You may experience lower water pressure, air in the system, and dirtier water during this time. Flushing will begin around 8am.
Custer Water will be flushing today starting at 8 AM. As always, water pressure may be low and discolored. If anyone wants to help, please let us know.
The completion if the repair has been postponed until next Monday (1/22). No water outage today; however, there will likely be an outage next Monday.
Custer Water has discovered a small leak in the system. Since school is out Monday, we have decided to do the repair tomorrow. Though we can't see the leak, chances are good we will be shutting the water off tomorrow (Monday 1/15) around 10 AM for approximately 2 hours. This will affect everyone East of the BNSF tracks and everyone north of Main Street.
I'm sure you are already aware, it is cold out and getting colder. Custer is expecting overnight lows in the single digits for the next couple days. We don't want anyone to experience broken pipes or leaks so we are sending this in the hope of helping.
Thank you for your help keeping the water flowing for all of us.
Custer Water Team
The water sample came back as good from the lab. The boil water advisory is officially over.
We will be flushing this weekend to get everything back to normal.
Thank you.
The lab has not reported the results of the water test yet. Thus, we are required to advise everyone who lost water pressure on Thursday (12/7) to continue to boil water intended for human consumption.
In talking with the water operator, we have decided to encourage everyone who lost water yesterday to boil any water you plan on drinking until Monday. This notice will be updated as more information is available. Thank you.
