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Water Fund

Bellingham's Water Fund is an enterprise fund operating the city's drinking-water utility — production, distribution, treatment, and customer billing. Revenue comes from water rates charged to customers; expenditures ...

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About this fund

Bellingham's Water Fund is an enterprise fund operating the city's drinking-water utility — production, distribution, treatment, and customer billing. Revenue comes from water rates charged to customers; expenditures are operations, capital infrastructure, and debt service on water-system bonds. The Watershed Protection charge (which funds Fund 411) is a separate line item on water bills.

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Discussed in meetings

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Apr 07, 2026
Whatcom County Council advanced multiple comprehensive plan chapters on April 7, 2026, in a marathon committee session focused primarily on water adjudication policies and agricultural land protections. The most ...
Apr 01, 2026
The 18th annual Lake Whatcom joint meeting brought together all three governing bodies responsible for managing the region's primary drinking water source, serving over 120,000 residents. This year's meeting marked a ...
Mar 24, 2026
The Whatcom County Council Committee of the Whole advanced four comprehensive plan chapters on March 24, with nuclear energy emerging as the most significant policy development of the session. After extensive ...
Mar 23, 2026
The Bellingham Public Works and Natural Resources Committee held a brief 5-minute meeting Sunday morning to address a single administrative issue with a stormwater quality project in the Birchwood neighborhood. ...
Mar 10, 2026
The Whatcom County Council held a routine regular meeting on March 10, 2026, processing 17 agenda bills with unanimous or near-unanimous approval across most items. The most significant action was the introduction of ...
Mar 03, 2026
Whatcom County Council spent 7.5 intensive hours reviewing and amending the first three chapters of its comprehensive plan update, making 28 preliminary decisions that will shape county development for the next 20 ...
Mar 02, 2026
The March 2, 2026 Lynden City Council meeting focused on routine administrative matters, with the primary business item being approval of a resolution authorizing utility easement agreements related to a lot line ...
Feb 24, 2026
The February 24, 2026 Whatcom County Council meeting was dominated by urgent calls for flood action from Sumas residents and broader discussions about public safety infrastructure. Council processed routine business ...
Feb 24, 2026
The Whatcom County Council Committee of the Whole met for 2 hours and 29 minutes on February 24, 2026, covering five major items with significant decisions on urban growth planning, legislative priorities, and potential ...
Feb 24, 2026
The City of Bellingham Water Resources Advisory Board (WRAB) held a facilitated workshop session focused on designing the city's first-ever annual utility report. The meeting centered around a collaborative exercise led ...

Methodology note

The Water Fund (410) is operationally distinct from the Watershed Fund (411), even though both appear on water customer bills. Fund 410 funds water-system operations; Fund 411 funds property acquisitions in the source watershed.

Sources: Bellingham adopted budgets and Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs); Chart of Accounts; Real Briefings meeting coverage. Real Record renders the published fund data in plain language; we don't change the numbers. Where the source publishes a different classification than ours, both are shown.