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A RESOLUTION establishing a framework for developing a corridor plan for the Tolt river.
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WHEREAS, the lower six miles of the Tolt river is impacted by flooding and channel migration; and
WHEREAS, the King County Flood Control Zone District ("District") maintains a system of flood containment levees in this area; and
WHEREAS, in partnership and collaboration with the Snoqualmie Watershed, the city of Carnation, local residents and others, the District, through King county as its service provider, has initiated the Tolt river corridor plan ("Corridor Plan"); and
WHEREAS, the Corridor Plan will emphasize the reduction of public safety risks associated with flooding and river processes and the improvement of flood protection infrastructure in the District's river facility inventory; and
WHEREAS, the Corridor Plan will recommend a suite of actions within the river corridor, comprised of levees, floodplain, channel migration and riparian areas to achieve goals and objectives within the scope of the Corridor Plan; and
WHEREAS, flooding in recent years, including a significant flood in 2009, has overtopped portions of the aging levee system with impacts to farms, homes, roadways and communities; and
WHEREAS, neighborhoods adjacent to this river corridor are at risk from bank erosion, flooding and channel migration; and
WHEREAS, the District board of supervisors desires to establish a framework for the Corridor Plan, which includes goals and provisional objectives, as well as a range of floodplain management approaches and tools for evaluation; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE KING COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL ZONE DISTRICT:
SECTION 1. The board of supervisors adopts the "Tolt River Corridor Plan Framework, Floodplain Management Goals, Objectives and Conceptual Approaches," dated February 11, 2015, which is Attachment A to this resolution.