King County - File #: 2011-0274

• File #: 2011-0274
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/13/2011
• In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
• Final action: 8/15/2011
• Enactment date: 8/26/2011
• Enactment #: 17163
• Title: AN ORDINANCE approving the 2006 Tacoma Water Comprehensive Water System Plan.
• Sponsors: Larry Phillips
• Indexes: Comprehensive Plan, Tacoma, City of, Water
• Staff: Reed, Mike

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/15/2011	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
8/15/2011	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
7/26/2011	1	Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee	Recommended Do Pass Consent	Pass
6/13/2011	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 06/03/2011
Title
AN ORDINANCE approving the 2006 Tacoma Water Comprehensive Water System Plan.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County has adopted K.C.C. chapter 13.24, which requires approval of comprehensive plans for water utilities that distribute or obtain water in unincorporated King County as a prerequisite for operating in unincorporated King County, receiving approval for annexation proposals, being granted right-of-way franchises, and being given approval for right-of-way construction permits. K.C.C. 13.24.060 prescribes the requirements for approval of such plans, including consistency with state and local planning requirements.
2. RCW 70.116.050 requires that general comprehensive plans for water utilities within critical water supply service areas be submitted to, and approved by, the legislative authority within whose boundaries all or a portion of the water utility lies.
3. The city of Tacoma's ("the city") previous water system plan was prepared in 2000 and approved by King County in 2003. Both Washington state Department of Health ("the DOH") and King County regulations require water system plans to be updated every six years.
4. The city is in Pierce county, provides direct retail water service to a small number of customers in both incorporated and unincorporated areas in South King County, and wholesale water service to multiple water utilities in Pierce and King counties. It is a partner, with the city of Kent, Lakehaven utility district and the Covington water district, in the development of the second supply project that delivers water from the Green river to those utilities for use in Pierce and King counties. It also has an agreement to provide water supply to the members of the Cascade Water Alliance. These service areas lie within the boundaries of the critical water supply service areas identified in both the East King and South King Coordinated Water System Plans.
5. The city's principal source of supply is...