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Clerk 08/31/2012
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AN ORDINANCE approving an amendment to the county's long-term combined sewer overflow control plan and authorizing the King County executive to prepare a water quality assessment and monitoring study to provide information for the next combined sewer overflow control program review in 2018.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County has had a long-term combined sewer overflow ("CSO") control plan since 1979. The long-term CSO control plan was last amended in 1999 as part of the regional wastewater services plan that was approved through Ordinance 13680.
2. The county has a total of forty-two CSO outfalls (four CSO outfalls associated with satellite CSO treatment plants and thirty-eight CSO outfalls not associated with satellite CSO treatment plants). The thirty-eight CSO outfalls not associated with satellite CSO treatment plants are required to meet the requirements of WAC 173-245-020(22). Based on available measured data, sixteen of King County's thirty-eight CSO outfall locations not associated with satellite CSO treatment plants are now controlled to the Washington state Department of Ecology's ("Ecology") standard while the remaining twenty-two CSO outfall locations are not controlled to Ecology's standard. Eight of these twenty-two CSO outfall locations not associated with satellite CSO treatment plants currently have projects underway or are early action projects. Three of the eight CSO outfall locations (CSO outfalls 009, 027a and 037) are being adjusted for full control. Of the twenty-two CSO outfall locations that are not controlled to Ecology's standard, the remaining fourteen CSO outfall locations require future capital projects and are the subject of the King County's long-term CSO control plan amendment.
3. K.C.C. 28.86.080 provides policies to guide the county's long-term CSO control plan. CSOCP-8 directs the executive to submit a CSO program review to the council and the regional water quality committee pri...
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