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History & Overview
Welcome to the Seattle Public Utilities Web Site
Seattle Public Utilities provides reliable, efficient, and environmentally conscious utility services to enhance the quality of life and livability in the communities we serve.
Our vision is to set the standard for utility services in the United States. To achieve this, we have established a set of service commitments to our customers. They include:
- • To provide high quality drinking water to all customers.
- • To provide reliable recycling, garbage and compostable yard and kitchen waste pickup.
- • To avoid sewage backups onto customer properties.
- • To manage storm water effectively in order to minimize flood damage.
In order to meet our customers’ expectations, we are committed to responding in a timely manner to questions or complaints in order to minimize service disruptions and to ensure that rates are as fair and affordable as possible.
You’ll find more information about us on this website. Welcome.
-- Ray Hoffman, Acting Director
ray.hoffman@seattle.gov
How Seattle Public Utilities Addresses the Mayor’s Priorities
Get Seattle Moving
- • Supporting the development of light rail projects, the Seattle monorail, and replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall.
- • Improving street use permitting and coordination of construction projects that affect the right-of-way.
Keep Our Neighborhoods Safe
- • Covering Seattle’s open reservoirs to enhance water supply security, improve water quality, and provide much needed open space.
Create Jobs and Opportunity for All
- • Increasing the use of historically underutilized businesses and ensuring equal access to all SPU services to support the Mayor’s Race and Social Justice Initiative.
Build Strong Families and Healthy Communities
- • Implementing the Mayor’s plan to boost the city’s recycling rate to 60 percent and to maintain Seattle’s leadership in recycling.
- • Leading the Mayor’s Restore Our Waters Initiative, a comprehensive strategy to restore, protect and enhance the water bodies in Seattle.
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