Lewis County PUD
Public Utility Districts
There are twenty-eight public utility districts throughout the State of Washington. PUDs have the authority to provide electric, water, sewer service and wholesale telecommunications service. The 28 PUD's serve more than 1.7 million citizens accross the state.
Public utilities districts (PUDs) are nonprofit, community-owned and governed utilities that provide electicity, water, wholesale telecommunications and sewer service.
Washington's first initiative to the legislature, approved by voters in 1930, gave citizens of each county the right to form a PUD. The Washington State Grange sponsored the PUD initiative because private power companies at that time refused to bring electric service to farms and small communities.