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Clerk 01/08/2015
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the condemnation of certain property and property rights required for construction, operation and maintenance of the Hanford #1 combined sewer overflow control project.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. On November 13, 2012, the King County council adopted the 2013 Annual Budget and program by Ordinance 17476 and provided funding for capital projects to support King County's wastewater treatment program.
B. One of the funded capital projects is the Hanford #1 combined sewer overflow control project for the upgrade and construction of conveyance infrastructure, under capital improvement project 1116802.
C. The Hanford #1 Project was approved as part of King County's long-term combined sewer overflow control plan under Ordinance 17413, and incorporated in King County's combined sewer overflow Consent Decree approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Department of Justice and Washington state Department of Ecology and entered into on July 3, 2013. This project involves the construction of a new sewer pipeline that will be installed near the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and Martin Luther King Jr. Way South to divert flows to an existing pipe with available capacity. Excess flows from this area will be routed to a storage tank at the intersection of South Hanford Street and South 27th Avenue. These new facilities will keep sewage and municipal stormwater from the Mt. Baker and northern Rainier Valley neighborhoods out of the Duwamish river.
D. Private property rights and rights in property in the vicinity of the project must be acquired to provide space for the construction of pipes, storage tanks and an odor control facility. This includes property owned by Worthington Real Estate LLC and Niro Investments LLC and Harry T. Yoshimura (dba Mutual Fish Company).
E. The wastewater treatment division of th...
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