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Clerk 03/30/2006
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AN ORDINANCE making a supplemental appropriation of $3,960,000 of capital funds to provide the appropriate level of appropriation authority on an emergency basis for the Barton force main repair project in the conveyance pipelines appropriation project category; and amending the 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, Section 116, as amended, and Attachment D, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. There is an emergency due to the failed section of the Beach Drive interceptor at Lincoln park in West Seattle that is leaking sewage onto Lincoln Park beach and into the Puget Sound.
B. On February 4, 2006, a section of the Beach Drive interceptor at Lincoln park in West Seattle failed causing sewage to leak onto the Lincoln park beach and into Puget Sound.
C. This was the second failure in less than one month, the first having occurred on January 17, 2006, and having been repaired on January 21, 2006.
D. Immediately after the February 4 failure, the wastewater treatment division ("WTD") of the department of natural resources and parks instituted tanker trucking operations to move sewage from the Barton pump station to the Murray pump station in order to reduce overflow sewage from entering Puget Sound. As the tanker trucking operations were only partially effective in that there was stil an overflow of approximately one million gallons of sewage per day, six hundred feet out into Puget Sound, a temporary pump station was installed and a temporary line was laid along the beach to control sewage overflows.
E. Video inspection of the Beach interceptor after the February 4 failure revealed four other sections of the interceptor that are at imminent risk of failure. WTD has determined that further repair and use of the Beach Drive interceptor pipe at Lincoln park is not feasible and that the thirty-inch concrete cylinder force main should be replaced with two parallel twenty-four-inch diameter high density polyethylene pipes, one being inserted into the failed pipe and one being laid parallel to it.
F. The second failure of the Beach Drive interceptor and the imminent risk of failure of four additional sections of the interceptor and the resulting possibility of the release of overflow sewage onto Lincoln park beach and into Puget Sound, constitute an emergency situation that presents a real and immediate threat to public health, safety and welfare.
G. Pursuant to K.C.C. 4.16.050, on February 17, 2006, the King County executive issued a determination of emergency and waiver from procurement requirements to repair a failed section of the Beach Drive interceptor at Lincoln park in West Seattle that is leaking sewage onto Lincoln park beach and into the Puget Sound, to protect public health, safety, welfare and property and the environment.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 15333 Section 116, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto and inserting therein the following:
The Barton Force Main Repair Project 423XXX, in appropriation project category A20500 Conveyance Pump Stations requires an appropriation of $3,960,000 to cover all costs and expenses associated with the design, construction and completion of the emergency restoration.
Fund Capital Fund Amount
4616 Wastewater Treatment Capital $3,960,000
SECTION 3. Attachment A to this ordinance hereby amends Attachment D to
Ordinance 15333, as amended, by adding thereto and inserting therein the projects listed in Attachment A to this ordinance.
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