Rolling Hills Glencairn Community

Flushing is done for today but the reservoir still needs time to recover before flushing your residential lines.

If you live on Sidney St, Allyson St, Paul Ave, Mark St, Lisa St or on Donald Ave (North of Sidney), your street was flushed today. These residents should run your outside lines to finish your part of the flush on your street after 5pm today.

If you live on any other street, you do not need to run your outside faucets today. The next section will be done in 2 days. Thursday, April 20, 8am to 5pm.

Everyone, should refrain from using water Thursday, 8am-5pm.

FYI: Some residences are scheduled for a planned power outage on Thursday. This should not affect the flush; it should continue as planned.

UPDATED FULL SYSTEM FLUSH PROCEDURE.  Rolling Hills-Glencairn main water lines will be flushed on Tuesday, April 18th and Thursday, April 20^th with Friday, April 21st as the 3^rd day if needed. Flushing begins at 8am and continues each day until 5pm.If the flush continues to the 3^rd day, the signs at the entrances to the community will not be removed until the flush is 100% complete.

A full system flush consists of closing and opening main water valves strategically throughout the community to run water through all the main lines and out the fire hydrants. This process cleans out all the water lines of sediment that can build up over time. DO NOT USE ANY WATER during the flushing. You may have water in your home sporadically throughout the days but using it will only delay the restoration of supply to everyone.

If you use water during the flush, it may pull water in the wrong direction and stirred up sediment will be pulled into your house or one of your neighbors. When the flushing is complete, we suggest you turn on an outside hose bib and let it run until you see that it runs clear (about 10-15 minutes, depending on how far the hose bib is from the main). 

Recently, King Water has been flushing in sections, so only the streets that were actually flushed need to run their own faucet to complete the flush in their area. There is no need to run outside faucets if your street was not done. The website will be updated at the end of each flush day with the streets that were flushed and any other pertinent information.

You will know when the flush is completed when the signs are removed from community entrances and if there is a current phone number on file for you in the office, you will receive a “Robo-call or Robo-text” from RHGC as the sender with the notification. Please update your contact information if you do not receive a notice.

For those of you who are interested; representatives from WA State & Island County DOH will be at the next board meeting on Tuesday, April 11 @ 7pm to discuss our water system. All are welcome to attend.

If you have pot holes in front of your mailbox, USPS may hold your mail and/or close your mailbox. Our new mail carrier is asking community members to proactively fill the pot holes before she starts delivering complaint notices. The best rock for this is 5/8 minus, which can be purchased at Maillards Landing Nursery by the 5 gallon bucket for $2 dollars. Miles Sand & Gravel also sells gravel.

The regular December 13, 2022 Board Meeting is cancelled. The next meeting will be January 10, 2023 @ 7pm at the clubhouse (1093 Sidney St)

King Water finished the flush for everyone today! It did take them a little longer and used more water from the reservoir than planned, so, please wait as long as you can before using water to let the reservoir recover. (At least 6pm if possible). If you live south of Sidney Street, you will run your outside faucets later today. Sidney street and the rest of the streets north were done last week so should not need to run outside faucets today.

This means that there is NO FLUSHING Thursday, October 27th! Yay!

Some of the flushing signs have blown over so this is a quick reminder that the flush continues tomorrow, October 25th 8 am to 5pm. I’m expecting they’ll be working on the center section of the community but ALL should still refrain from using water during those hours. I’ll update you all tomorrow when I know which streets were flushed.

Flushing is done for today but the reservoir still needs time to recover before flushing your residential lines.

All of Sidney and all the streets north of Sidney were done today including Allyson, Paul, Mark, Lisa and the north ends of Donald and Riepma. So those residents should run your outside lines to finish your part of the flush after 5pm.

If you live on any other street, you do not need to run your outside faucets today. The next section will be done next Tuesday, October 25, 8am to 5pm

For those of you who did not get a text reminder about the flush tomorrow…it appears that we are required to prove that you are all customers and are actually opting-in to receive text message notices from the office regarding this. We”ll have to determine what kind of documentation we need and send it out for verification. Watch for it in an upcoming newsletter. So for this flush, text message updates when finished will not be sent out. Call the office if you have any questions 360-678-7446.

UPDATED FULL SYSTEM FLUSH PROCEDURE.  Rolling Hills-Glencairn main water lines will be flushed on Tuesday, October 18^th and Tuesday, October 25^th with Thursday, October 27 as the 3^rd day if needed. Flushing begins at 8am and continues each day until 5pm.If the flush continues to the 3^rd day, the signs at the entrances to the community will not be removed until the flush is 100% complete.

A full system flush consists of closing and opening main water valves strategically throughout the community to run water through all the main lines and out the fire hydrants. This process cleans out all the water lines of sediment that can build up over time. DO NOT USE ANY WATER during the flushing. You may have water in your home sporadically throughout the days but using it will only delay the restoration of supply to everyone.

If you use water during the flush, it may pull water in the wrong direction and stirred up sediment will be pulled into your house or one of your neighbors. When the flushing is complete, we suggest you turn on an outside hose bib and let it run until you see that it runs clear (about 10-15 minutes, depending on how far the hose bib is from the main).  

Recently, King Water has been flushing in sections, so only the streets that were actually flushed need to run their own faucet to complete the flush in their area. There is no need to run faucets if your street was not done. The website will be updated at the end of each flush day with the streets that were flushed and any other pertinent information.

You will know when the flush is completed when the signs are removed from community entrances and if there is a current phone number on file for you in the office, you will receive a “Robo-call or Robo-text” from RHGC as the sender with the notification. Please update your contact information if you do not receive a notice.