King County - File #: 2009-0367

• File #: 2009-0367
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/15/2009
• In control: Physical Environment Committee
• Final action: 6/29/2009
• Enactment date: 7/10/2009
• Enactment #: 16581
• Title: AN ORDINANCE requiring the adoption of rules addressing procedures for establishing large wood emplacements in rivers or streams.
• Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Reagan Dunn, Bob Ferguson, Kathy Lambert
• Indexes: Natural Resources, Department of
• Staff: Reed, Mike

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/29/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
6/29/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed as Amended	Pass
6/23/2009	1	Physical Environment Committee	Amended
6/23/2009	2	Physical Environment Committee	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
6/15/2009	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

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AN ORDINANCE requiring the adoption of rules addressing procedures for establishing large wood emplacements in rivers or streams.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Public agencies, development and habitat restoration project proponents and private landowners have increasingly made use of large wood emplacement in recent years, as a means of enhancing fisheries and aquatic habitat values, reducing erosion and scouring to river banks, deflecting flows to minimize impacts to river banks, offsetting the impacts of development projects and protecting shorelines.
2. Public safety concerns have emerged regarding the potential hazard presented by some of these emplacements to recreational boaters, floaters and other water users.
3. Based on these concerns, the King County council directed that the department of natural resources and parks prepare a report on the circumstances associated with large wood emplacements, addressing means of mitigating against public safety hazards.
4. That report was prepared and presented to the council, noting, among other findings, certain procedural approaches to large wood emplacements that are generally observed by the department of natural resources and parks.
5. Those procedural approaches have not been adopted as administrative rules and are not readily available to the public.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1.
A. By March 31, 2010, the executive shall adopt rules addressing the procedures that the King County department of natural resources and parks shall follow when installing large wood emplacements in rivers or streams.
B. The rules shall require the department of natural resources and parks to:
1. Develop a conceptual design of the wood emplacement for each proposed project. The project-specific conceptual design shall address proposed location, size, shape and anchoring of the wood; whether wood recruitment, which is the intentional accumulation of wood, floating down the ri...