Drafter
Clerk 01/23/2003
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AN ORDINANCE approving the Ames Lake Water Association 2001 Comprehensive Water System Plan.
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PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of comprehensive plans for water utilities as a prerequisite for granting right-of-way franchises and approval of right-of-way construction permits.
The Ames Lake water association currently provides water service to approximately three thousand people living in rural King County, west of the city of Carnation. The population served in ten years is projected to increase to about three thousand six hundred due to development of lots within the service area.
The association's water sources include five production wells and one emergency well. The association has water rights sufficient to provide for all the growth anticipated under current zoning. The association is also exploring the feasibility of an intertie with Sammamish Plateau water and sewer district to provide water purchased from the city of Seattle.
The association currently uses two hundred fifty thousand gallons of water per day on an average basis and nearly four hundred sixty-five thousand gallons per day during days of maximum demand. At buildout, the average and maximum demands may increase to three hundred fourteen thousand gallons per day and five hundred eighty-five thousand gallons per day, respectively, assuming existing patterns of water use remain the same.
Water rates charged by the association for high-volume water users are among the highest in the county. This rate structure has assisted the association in reducing excessive water use and has provided a funding mechanism for its water conservation program.
The plan contains a six- and twenty-year capital improvement program valued at nearly seven hundred thousand dollars. It includes the costs of two new storage tanks, a backup power supply, activation of a new well and purchase of city of Seattle water via an intertie to Sammamish Plateau w...

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