Every message above is a genuine Okanogan PUD record — released under the Washington Public Records Act, or, where the message's source line says so, provided to this site by its recipients — nothing is dramatized, paraphrased, or invented. The complete files (with the rest of the release) are on the Documents page, and every date lands on the timeline. This is an independent community site, not affiliated with the PUD.
House rules — how the inbox stays honest
- It's a reading room, not a leak and not a login. These emails are public records: nearly all were requested from the District, reviewed and released by the District under the Public Records Act; the few that weren't were sent by the District to the county's retail providers, who shared them with us — each message's source line says which. The mail-client framing is just a way to read them the way they were written — one message at a time, in order.
- Nothing is edited except redactions, and redactions are visible. Customer names, home addresses, employee test-home locations, device identifiers, and internal network details are replaced with marked
[redactions]. Typos and phrasing are the record's own. Where a long thread is trimmed, the cut is marked[…]. - Stars and violet notes are ours — and only ours. A ★ means this site flags the message as key evidence; the violet box says why. Both live outside the record and are labeled as commentary, so you can ignore them and read the raw text cold.
- Every message names its source file. Check any of them against the full release on the Documents page — don't take our curation on faith.