MOUNTLAKE TERRACE — Mountlake Terrace Public Works Director Gary Schimek led a public forum on Wednesday at City Hall to discuss regional wastewater management and provide updates for community members on projects and rates.

The forum included insight from former and current interim City of Edmonds Public Works Director Phil Williams, City of Everett Public Works Director Ryan Sass and Alderwood Water & Wastewater District General Manager John McClellan.

Mountlake Terrace is in the midst of creating a 50-year plan for its water and sewer system, figuring out how to manage water supplies amid a drought and how to find capacity for wastewater with an increasing population, Schimek said, giving context to the evening.

“Those are some big issues,” he said. “And then you have climate change,

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