02/27/2026
2026 MOUNT BAKER ANNUAL MEETING SUMMARY
1)Financial Status – We have approximately $290,000 in the Bank Accounts/CD’s. 2025 was a year where we spent more than we brought in. The main reason was that we had to replace the River Well pump and a check valve that cracked.
2)We are continually searching for leaks in the system and hope everyone keeps an eye out for anything that looks out of place. We repaired 3 large leaks last year; the check valve at the river well, a service line on smith road and a leak at the meter on smith road, and we currently think we have 1 or 2 small leaks that we are searching for. We purchased a leak detector and are getting it fine tuned to search for leaks.
3)Water Judication with the Department of Health – The association is taking care of this process and we currently have our attorney reviewing our information for each well. When that is done, we will submit it to DOH. If anybody has a private well that they are using for animals or gardens, then they need to fill out the information for that well. This will be a long drawn out process lasting for years. We believe we have very solid water rights. Most likely, those affected, would be recent well owners and farmers. We will keep everyone posted on the process.
4)Bad water Samples – As we previously stated, we had 2 bad water samples at the end of 2025, September at the Allison Sample Station and November at the South Sand sample Station. These are positive for Total Coliform (dirt) and NOT E.COLI. We proceeded to check the system and report to the DOH. We were notified that if we had another bad sample within 12 months, we would have to chlorinate the system. We had that 3rd bad sample this month at the Allison sample station. We are trying to be proactive with searching for leaks, and we are looking for a company to look at the well casing to see if they think we might need to replace it. We treated the system with chlorine and flushed the lines after this last bad sample and investigative samples from the well and each sample station were taken Monday and they all came back negative for coliform. Hopefully the DOH will give us some time to find and fix our problem
5)Elections – Robert Haught (President) was re-elected for 3 more years
