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Clerk 01/30/2002
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AN ORDINANCE approving the Lakehaven Utility District 1999 Comprehensive Wastewater System Plan, as amended.
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PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of comprehensive plans for sewer utilities as a prerequisite for granting right-of-way franchises and approval of right-of-way construction permits.
The Lakehaven Utility District 1999 Comprehensive Wastewater System Plan (plan), as amended, discusses sewer service to existing and future populations within the district's twenty-seven-square mile service area. The service area currently includes portions of the cities of Federal Way, Des Moines, Kent, Auburn, Milton, Pacific and Tacoma and parts of urban unincorporated King County. The service area is comprised predominantly of single-family residences, although multifamily residences, commercial areas and industries are also served. Approximately one hundred thousand residents and thirty-five thousand employees are currently served by the district. By 2017, the residential population projected to be served by the district is nearly one hundred fifty thousand; approximately fifty thousand employees will be served.
The majority of the district's waste water flows are currently treated by the district's two treatment plants, Lakota and Redondo. Some flows are treated by Midway sewer district, by the city of Tacoma and by King County. The quantity of waste water from the district that is treated by King County's Renton treatment plan is currently and will remain at less than one million gallons per day. The district's two treatment plants have sufficient capacity to treat projected flows through 2017.
The district has recently completed several years of effort to reduce infiltration and inflow in the Redondo basin. A reduction of approximately three hundred thousand gallons per day was achieved.
A twenty-year capital program was identified at a cost of approximately forty million dollars. Funding for the capital improvements will come primarily from revenue bonds and developer funding for currently unsewered areas.
The King County utilities technical review committee (UTRC) reviewed and conditionally approved the plan on August 8, 2001. The conditions of approval, technical changes to the plan, are reflected in the plan version attached to this ordinance. The UTRC recommends that the council approve the plan.
The plan was originally prepared in 1999 and subsequently amended. The plan version attached to this ordinance contains the amendments previously approved by the district.
The district prepared a determination of nonsignificance for the plan on May 28, 1999, in accordance with the state Environmental Policy Act.
The district adopted the plan on July 8, 1999, and amended it on May 10, 2001.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The Lakehaven Utility District 1999 Comprehensive Wastewater
System Plan, as amended, Attachment A to this ordinance, is hereby approved without conditions.