Develop, train, hire, and retain an outstanding management team 7. Provides property information and utility locations, design and construction services for Public Works projects, development oversight and engineering services to other municipal departments. The division consists of a City Engineer, Assistant City Engineer, a Construction Inspector, and three Engineering Technicians. Treats water withdrawn from the Skagit River near Mount Vernon and serves Anacortes, La Conner, Oak Harbor, Tesoro and Equilon Oil Refineries, the Swinnomish Indian Reservation, portions of Skagit P.U.D. No. 1 service area on Fidalgo Island and in the Avon Area, and numerous other industrial customers. The Treatment Plant is located on River Bend Road just outside the Mt. Vernon city limits.
Treatment consists of floculation, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection.
The treatment plant is operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week. An ADA video is available. Wastewater Treatment Treats wastewater for the corporate limits of Anacortes. The treatment plant is a secondary wastewater treatment plant use an activated sludge process. Treated wastewater is discharged to the Guemes Channel.