File #: 2021-0029    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 1/26/2021 In control: Mobility and Environment Committee
On agenda: Final action: 5/11/2021
Enactment date: 5/20/2021 Enactment #: 19281
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an emergency mutual aid agreement with the Washington Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Agreement, Executive, Wastewater, Water
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19281, 2. 2021-0029 Legislative Review Form, 3. A. Mutual Aid and Assistance for Intrastate Water Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN), 4. 2021-0029 Transmittal Letter, 5. 2021-0029 Copy of Fiscal Note, 6. 2021-0029_SR_Wastewater Mutual Aid Agreement.docx
Staff: Reed, Mike

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Clerk 01/04/2021

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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an emergency mutual aid agreement with the Washington Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1.  A regional disaster, such as an earthquake, a severe windstorm or wide-spread flooding, would quickly overwhelm local response resources.  Assistance would, by necessity, need to come from outside the region and possibly from outside the state.

2.  The Mutual Aid and Assistance Agreement for Washington State for Intrastate Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN), Attachment A to this ordinance, is a nationwide mutual aid agreement between members of the American Water Works Association that allows signatory agencies to share resources and receive emergency mutual aid assistance from other utilities, both locally and nationally.

3.  The county is not currently a member of the Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network.  Being a member of the Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network would allow the wastewater treatment division of the department of natural resources and parks to access mutual aid resources from across the country without having to negotiate individual agreements during an emergency.

4.  In emergency situations, the Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network system circulates requests for mutual aid nationally.

5.  To participate in the national Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network system, individual utilities must be signatories to their state's agreement, referred to as WAWARN in the state of Washington.  WAWARN currently has one hundred fifty-one signatories, including forty-two cities and counties and one hundred nine utility agencies.

6.  The county's participation in the WAWARN agreement will enable the county to receive timely assistance from other agencies from both within and outside the state of Washington, if and when needed.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The executive is authorized to execute the Mutual Aid and Assistance Agreement for Washington State for Intrastate Water/Wastewater Agency

Response Network (WARN) in substantially the same form as Attachment A to this ordinance and to take all actions necessary to implement the terms of this agreement.