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Bellevue utilities update: pump‑station, culvert assessments and data fixes steer asset‑management priorities
Summary
Bellevue utilities presented a strategic asset-management update highlighting completed condition assessments of 10 wastewater pump stations and more than 200 culverts, improvements to inventory and data quality (including correcting ~400 orphaned CCTV records), and a plan to update the Strategic Asset Management Plan in 2026–27.
Jacqueline Knoth, Bellevue’s utilities asset manager, told the Environmental Services Commission on Jan. 8 that condition-assessment work completed in 2024–25 has produced actionable priorities for capital investment and improved the city’s long-term renewal forecasting.
Knoth said the utilities portfolio is large — more than 600 miles of water mains, almost 500 miles of sewer gravity main, roughly 400 miles of storm and surface water mains, dozens of pumping facilities and thousands of maintenance structures — and that the department has been strengthening its asset-inventory, condition-assessment and prioritization tools to support long-term stewardship.
"We invested in detailed evaluations of 10 pump…
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