EVERETT — A broken water pipe caused damage totaling at least $100,000 to the downtown Everett offices of the Snohomish Health District, forcing the relocation of two services to Lynnwood.
The immunization clinic and the tuberculosis skin testing service at 3020 Rucker Ave. in Everett will be moved to the Lynnwood office, at 6101 200th St. SW, said Heather Thomas, the health district’s spokeswoman.
The services will be available there beginning Feb. 2. It’s unclear how long the repairs will take in Everett and how long the immunization clinic and the tuberculosis skin testing service will remain in Lynnwood, Thomas said.
The public health agency offers a number of child and adult immunizations, including for measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis A and B and influenza.
The water pipe broke over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend, causing damage on the first floor of the Everett office, Thomas said. The immunization clinic was flooded with an inch of standing water. “The flooring and some walls needed to be taken out,” Thomas said. “It seeped under some of the tile and the sub-floor.”
HIV testing and referral services for sexually transmitted diseases, which also are on the first floor, will be moved to the second floor.
Several other office and storage facilities were affected, as well, but the damage apparently didn’t spread to the building’s generator and equipment room.
The location of two other programs on the Everett office’s main floor, Women, Infants and Children and First Steps, remain there.
Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486 or salyer@heraldnet.com.
Relocated
Starting Feb. 2, the Snohomish Health District’s immunization clinic and tuberculosis skin testing service at 3020 Rucker Ave. in Everett will be relocated to the south Snohomish County office at 6101 200th St. SW in Lynnwood. The Lynnwood office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 425-775-3522 for information.
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