DRAINAGE DISTRICTS

Duties include field review of drainage needs, attending an annual meeting to determine the next year’s work schedule and assessment levy, elect internal officers, and review, discuss, or act on any other official and district business.  (RCW 85.06 and RCW 85.38.170 and .180)

Drainage District #2 
1 vacancy, Commissioner Position 3. Appointed term will expire at the special district general election of February 2024. District boundary is located +/- 4-5 miles north/northeast of Ferndale.  Schneider Ditch is the primary channel, tributary to the Nooksack River.

Drainage District #3 
1 vacancy, Commissioner Position 1. Appointed term will expire at the special district general election of February 2024. District boundary is located approximately in the Four Mile Creek/Green Lake area, including tributary drainage to Green Lake along the Central Road and Noon Road. Deadline for applications to this vacancy is 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 19, 2023.

Drainage Improvement District #6 
1 vacancy, Supervisor Position 3. Appointed term will expire at the special district general election of February 2024. District boundary is located midway between Lynden and Ferndale and bounded and/or transected by portions of W. Pole, Old Guide, King Tut, Aldrich, and Woodlyn Roads.  Unnamed tributary ditch to Cougar Creek/Nooksack River is the primary channel.

Drainage Improvement District #15 
1 vacancy, Supervisor Position 1. Appointed term will expire at the special district general election of February 2024. District boundary is located +/- 1-5 miles easterly of Sumas.  Lowland reach of Saar Creek and Arnold (Mud) Slough are the primary channels, tributary to the Canadian reach of the Sumas River/Fraser River.

DIKING DISTRICTS

The Board of Commissioners shall have the exclusive charge of the construction and maintenance of all dikes or dike systems, including stream bank protection, which may be constructed within the district, and shall be the executive officers thereof, with full power to bind the district by their acts in the performance of their duties, as provided by law (RCW 85.05.085).  

Diking District #3
1 vacancy, Commissioner Position 3. Appointed term will expire at the special district general election of February 2024. District boundary is located along the left (southeasterly) bank of the Nooksack River, extending from approximately ¾ mile westerly of the Guide Meridian Road to the south line of Section 9, T 39 N., R 2 E., W.M.