Southeast Jefferson January Update
Construction between Chimacum and the Coyle will begin in the summer of 2026. In preparation, our contract engineers have been out in the field collecting info to help complete the design.
In the next few weeks, they'll begin calling homes in the project area to schedule site surveys. The purpose of the survey is to map the route the fiber will take from the street to the side of the building. The engineer will need your help to identify any buried private utility lines: septic, irrigation, propane, outdoor lighting or powerlines not owned by the PUD. They also document any landscaping barriers like gardens, plantings, or pavement.
The engineer will also need your help to identify the location where the fiber will come through the outside wall to enter the home. Your input ensures safe and timely installation. That said, it is a best effort process, and construction occasionally turns up items that even the most informed homeowners were unaware of.
TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS TO SIGN UP!
We're running out of no-cost construction slots. Thanks to funding from the USDA and Washinton State, the first 65% of folks in the project area to sign up pay nothing to have the fiber built from the street and brought inside the home. After the 65% threshold is reached, we charge $750 per home to cover part of our construction costs. Right now, 50% of customers in the area are already signed-up. We've exceeded the threshold in every project area. Once construction starts any remaining no-charge registrations will go fast. If you have neighbors that want fiber but haven't signed up, tell them to act now and register on our website!
ABOUT PUD FIBER INTERNET
We're building one of the fastest most reliable networks in the nation. Every home has the capacity to get up to 10 Gbps of internet uploads and downloads. Right now, our rural Quilcene customers have better, faster, cheaper and more reliable internet than most residents of Seattle.
Fiber is unique in that the data is delivered via light wave instead of a radio wave. Radio waves whether delivered over a copper phone line for DSL, or coaxial cable, or broadcast from towers as fixed wireless, or beamed down from space via satellite, are vulnerable to interference. Fixed wireless and satellite can be slowed down by natural occurrences like rain and trees. Which we have in abundance.
Additionally, the fiber optic cable we hang on power poles is coated in Kevlar and less prone to breaks or outages than power lines. When a tree or branch hits power lines, it can create a circuit that causes the wire to burn and potentially melt. When it hits a fiber line, there's no electricity involved to create the circuit. Now if a 100' tall fir comes down, as they inevitably do a few times every year, not much will stand against that force. But our line crew and fiber team will be onsite fast to repair damage and restore service.
You can learn more about our home and business internet packages and programs on our website.
Thanks again for your patience and support.