Drafter
Clerk 06/22/2005
Title
A MOTION expressing support for the Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA) 8 Chinook Salmon Conservation Plan.
Body
WHEREAS, The King County region is blessed with a remarkable regional resource in its rich and bountiful environment, embraced and cherished by the citizens and leadership of the region for the unique quality of life and cultural heritage that it bestows, and
WHEREAS, King County has acknowledged this natural blessing by accepting responsibility for custodianship of the environment, through caring for ecosystem health, and maintaining a legacy for future generations, and
WHEREAS, King County has a long history of leadership in the effective conservation and management of natural resources, including protection of water quality, preservation and restoration of habitat and open space, flood hazard reduction and salmon conservation, and
WHEREAS, these leadership efforts include the groundbreaking environmental initiative of early King County leaders and citizens to restore the water quality of Lake Washington prior to the adoption of the federal Clean Water Act or the formation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency or state Department of Ecology, and
WHEREAS, King County further undertook environmental protection efforts such as the surface water management program, instituted in 1987, that implemented comprehensive watershed-oriented capital, regulatory and incentive-based actions to protect basins from flooding and erosion and restore ecological health, and the Waterways 2000 program which supported acquisition and protection of critical natural resources, and
WHEREAS, King County's 1994 Regional Needs Assessment process engaged the county, Seattle, Bellevue and suburban cities in discussions that acknowledged that fish habitat, water quality, and flood control must be managed at the watershed level to be effective, resulting in the establishment of inter-jurisdictional fora t...
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