Drafter
Clerk 11/2/2006
Title
AN ORDINANCE approving the city of Tukwila 2005 Water System Plan Update as a comprehensive water system plan, subject to specified conditions.
Body
PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of comprehensive plans for water utilities as a prerequisite for approving annexations, granting right-of-way franchises, and approving right-of-way construction permits.
RCW 43.20.260 requires that water system plans for any new industrial, commercial, or residential use are to be consistent with the requirements of any comprehensive plans or development regulations adopted under chapter 36.70A RCW or any other applicable comprehensive plan, land use plan or development regulation adopted by a city, town or county for the service area.
The city of Tukwila currently provides water service to approximately three thousand two hundred residential households and forty-one thousand employees of commercial/industrial customers within its service area. The city is located in the south portion of King county.
The city of Tukwila obtains its water principally from Seattle Public Utilities ("SPU") under the block contract between SPU and the Cascade Water Alliance ("CWA" or "Cascade"). The city of Tukwila is assured an adequate supply of water under the interlocal agreement ("ILA") with seven other local governments and special purpose districts that formed CWA. Its average annual potable water demand is approximately two million five hundred thousand gallons per day. The potable demand is projected to increase to about four million seven hundred thousand gallons per day by 2024. A large portion of the growth in demand will result from its intention to expand service to areas within the city's boundaries currently served by other water utilities, and by assuming service into potential annexation areas that it expects to annex.
The city of Tukwila will participate in the conservation program developed by CWA under the ILA. As a pa...
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