Coho Water Resources

Taylor Shellfish

Chris Pitre first helped Taylor Shellfish in 2002 to secure a new groundwater right in a watershed closed to further consumptive use under an instream flow rule. This was made possible by management of treated water to offset impacts, and allowed financing of a large state-of-the-art shellfish processing facility.

Since then, Coho has installed a new water supply well, renewed a State Waste Discharge Permit, and secured Washington Department of Health source approvals. Coho has also worked at Taylors’ Samish facility in Skagit County providing supply/demand and water rights self-assessment analysis of a water system to meet facility conversion and expansion to meet Small Water System Planning requirements.

Coho Water is currently further securing this water supply by rehabilitating existing wells to increase well yield and reduce pumping costs, and installing a third supply well for increased reliability and redundancy. Coho continues to serve Taylors on a variety of projects.