Twelve neighborhoods, half an hour around the water.

Distance from the van, and what the tap delivers.

Every row in this table sits inside the half-hour ring and is quoted the same way. Read the last column before the second one: within the city limits the taps carry McAllister wellfield and Allison Springs water and the drains run to LOTT, while past the city line it is a private well drilled into glacial till, a septic tank and, more often than not, a propane tank out back — and that sets the technician’s expectations before the engine is off. Tumwater, Yelm and Shelton are covered too, but the pages below belong to Olympia proper and the shoreline west of it.