System Development

Pierce County’s collaborative approach to planning and maintenance ensures quality service and cost-effective solutions.
System Development
Pierce County Public Works and Utilities employees Rocky Feller, left, maintenance specialist; James Wilkinson, maintenance worker; and Ryan Hall, maintenance technician, work together to bring debris out of a manhole that they have just cleaned from a sewer line.

In the early 1970s, local lakes in Pierce County, Wash., began experiencing water-quality problems. The area faced a moratorium on building, but it never reached that point.

The first Utility Local Improvement Districts were put in place across the country in 1970, with funding...

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